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...rain outside the gates, waiting to be weighed and measured. Inside, children were sectioned by age and urgency. Each were given red and green plastic bowls for diarrhea and vomit. On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull. When I next saw him, he was trussed up the blanket that had become his death shroud, lying on a slab next to two other small bundles in the morgue...
...Blanker criticism of all who enter these industries is unfounded and unfair, and demonstrates more ignorance than idealism. Attacks on investment banking and consulting stem primarily from a misunderstanding of what people in these professions actually do. Perhaps some people have watched the movie "Wall Street" too many times for their own good. There's more to the business than trading rich people's money and ignoring the poor...
...true Islam has shown me that a blanker indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against Blacks. Yes, I have been convinced that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on the path to destroying this country...
...usual starting time for the Cambridge City Council meetings scheduled weekly at 5 p.m. the council chamber was empty Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci was not there to top his ceremonial gavel to call the session to order and ask all assembled to pledge allegiance to the flag. A blanker at snow had stopped or at least slowed the wheels of the city's government...
When competing First Amendment freedoms are at stake, blanker statements are usually inexact. As often as not, the decision of a court hinges on a careful examination of facts and these vary from case to case. The dilemma of satisfying equally legitimate yet potentially conflicting rights accounts for the care with which the courts have discussed these issues and the diversity of opinion on them...