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...Those nine-inning games are always going to [require] a combination of pitchers,” Mager said. “And it’s nice to be able to count on your bull...
...make somebody cry. The most notorious moment in Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint the fireplace." He built a screen around it instead, and the wife duly burst into tears. "[The screen] wasn't earth shattering," he insists. "But her shrieks were...
Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (and University President Lawrence H. Summers) to a bull in a china shop. This analogy, at one level, is grossly incorrect and unfair: the disputed territories in Israel do not remotely resemble a shop that sells china. China does not demand appeasement through coercive violence as Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat demands from Ariel Sharon...
...frame his opinion outside of the conflict that currently exists in the Middle East. His statement says that, in one way—and in one particular way only—Summers and Sharon are similar: they both have a tendency to act like a “bull in a china shop.” The comparison of Summers to Sharon is a metaphor; it is not some larger commentary on West’s political views...
...However, I think Professor West probably used that as part of his…political leanings right now, and I don’t think the comparisons really work well—it could have been any bull in a china shop and not just Ariel Sharon,” Moore said...