Word: bludgeonings
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...will have died in Chechnya by the time George W. Bush meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow at the end of May. Don't ask how many civilian Chechens die in the fighting each week. Nobody knows, though the number surely mounts as Moscow's long campaign to bludgeon Chechnya into submission proceeds unchecked...
...Some analysts are wielding this latter fact like a bludgeon, saying the web has reached a "saturation point." Excuse me, is someone telling me that in 1960 or 1970 or 1980, TV was a slow growth industry that had hit the wall, that it wasn't at the very center of American life...
...Francisco Giants left fielder Barry Bonds is on pace to bludgeon the home-run record this season, but America should not expect an invitation to hop on his bandwagon. Depending on whom you ask, Bonds is either notoriously arrogant or shy bordering on prickly, and his flaws, of which there are a few, are not the sweet, character-building ones that move Billy Crystal to filmmaking. Make no mistake, though, with 39 dingers at press time--the most in baseball history before the All-Star break--Bonds doesn't just have a chance to break Mark McGwire's 1998 record...
...plurality victory when he took just 39% of the overall vote, the notion of reunification with the mainland?even along the lines of Hong Kong's "one country, two systems"?is not so much unpalatable as non sequitur. Why, exactly, should Taiwan subsume its coolness to China's cultural bludgeon? There really isn't a good reason except some notion that one China is better than two. But in more than 50 years as a de facto state, and particularly over the past decade, Taiwan has forged a separate history and identity that call out for a President vibrant...
...arguments against trade in toxic waste, some of which may very well be compelling. I count six of them in this column alone. But rather than engage the question, the protestors who held signs and chanted outside Loeb House have preferred to use the memo as a moral bludgeon, perversely changing the subject to Harvard’s labor policies. I support a living wage, but assuming Summers must atone for his views on toxic waste, why would giving $10.25 an hour to Harvard workers be the proper penance? Just because it’s the cause du jour...