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According to Lamas, "nearly one quarter of the student body received [the] email." If that is indeed the case, the convergence of a mere two opinions falls far short of justifying the article's blanket sub-heading, "Students say loss of privacy doesn't bother them." If a journalist chooses not to employ legitimate survey tools, she is surely obliged to refrain from broad generalizations, especially when dealing with samples as large as one fourth of Harvard College...
...Brenneman), who's returned from New York City to Hartford, Conn., to live with her social-worker mother (Tyne Daly). Amy benefits from a strong cast and a slightly harder-nosed attitude than its treacly forebear, but if this judge doesn't stop wearing her robe like a security blanket soon, she's going to try our patience...
Dunn looks like your grandmother, with crisp white hair and a ruddy complexion, who stands just about five feet tall. She loves detective novels and just finished knitting a blanket for her first grandchild, who will be born next month...
Meanwhile, the larger historical framework surrounding the controversy, such as the United States' very recent imperialist past (and some might argue present) in Puerto Rico and the treatment of Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens in the United States has been shunted aside in favor of blanket accusations about the tolerance of violence and the cat-and-mouse game of political point-scoring. What was an opportunity for Americans, particularly politicians, to educate themselves about Puerto Rico's history and its complicated relationship with the United States, as well as about the status and treatment of Puerto Ricans...
...plausibly, with a critique of the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Why, he asked, should gun companies, instead of the killers, be held accountable for the appalling rate of black-on-black homicide? But that pointed query was merely a launching point for Horowitz's real message: a blanket assault on the alleged moral failures of African Americans so strident and accusatory that it made the antiblack rantings of Dinesh D'Souza seem like models of fair-minded social analysis...