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Lewis: Can I just interrupt to chime in with an apt quotation on the point Howard was making. This is a wonderful libel opinion. Its an opinion of Judge Bork's in a case decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit last week. "In deciding a case like this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about...
...hard to stomach the Administration's claim that the deficit reduction burden is being shared equally by all segments of society. Slashing medicare, child nutrition and other socially progressive programs while leaving corporate profits untouched does not chime with our nations of equality...
Experts who had never met the winsome lady read the correspondence and found it compelling. "These new letters," said Poet Carl Sandburg, perhaps Lincoln's most famous biographer, "seem entirely authentic? and preciously and wonderfully coordinate and chime with all else known of Lincoln." Muckraking Journalist Ida M. Tarbell, who had also written a Lincoln biography, wrote to Sedgwick: "You have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over...
...shopping for new phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry the imprimatur of high-fashion designers, hide in leather boxes or chime instead of ring. Prices range from $15 for a non-Bell version of the standard rotary dial phone in basic black to the "Elephone," a unit encased in a silver-plated elephant's head that costs...
...which rise dark and gorgeous in every direction. But to the businessmen who brought the railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even...