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FLANAGAN: I think what people don't like is paying taxes. People living here in Los Angeles, no matter where they are in the political spectrum, they're saying, "Boy, we got a lot of people here who are succeeding and not paying taxes, and public schools are failing because they're filled with people who are here, and, yes, they work in our houses, so we are conflicted, so we're not really going to raise too much ire." But I think that it's a much more mercenary thing that people are angry about. I really think...
Dick Cheney is the poster boy for the "shoot first, think later" approach, whether it involves war, torture or just plain getting even...
...industrial city, but perhaps outside Italy it is unknown. Italy isn't just Venice, Naples and Milan; there are also a number of very nice small cities. People of the Piedmont region may have a reserved character, but they are not inhospitable. They are like a timid boy: at first they might seem unsociable, but all things considered they are only prudent. I invite everyone to visit Torino, a city with many things to discover...
...STILL SO HARD FOR FEMALE DIRECTORS? That's interesting. When women became studio heads--boy, that's interesting--it didn't change anything. The second you get in that job, you still have to sing the same song. You still try to figure out how to make Spider...
...dropped catachrestically, occluding all other arguments, embittering and insulting colleagues and—most importantly—neutering the meaning of anti-Semitism so that it works not as the name for violent racial bigotry, but as an unsuccessful attempt to embarrass critics into silence. Like the boy who cried wolf, those who recklessly toss around and redefine terms like anti-Semitism should be held responsible for destroying, through willful catachresis, the use-value of a powerful word of warning. Evidently lacking many positive arguments in support of their candidate, the Summers partisans have re-introduced the term...