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...year (June 21, 1903) to a mother who lived to 91 and a father who lived to 93 - a father who, Hirschfeld said, invented the term "senior citizen." In America, or the more empyrean realm of art, few citizens were more senior than Al, none more youthful, cogent, articulate or productive. Over the years, his witty hand had fashioned some 12,000 drawings...
While the economic argument for taxing cigarettes is cogent in theory, despite its practical difficulties, it still raises questions about broader public policy. For if the government has a compelling interest in restricting smoking, why not drinking? After all, there are immense economic costs to society when productive people are killed by drunk drivers. Why should smokers be the sole sinners to pay up when there are so many compelling social engineering goals for the government to reach and so many different groups of wayward citizens to target...
...belligerent old man didn’t reserve his fire for the official offices of the University; he went after everybody and everything Harvard. In one of his most cogent and brilliant political maneuvers, he managed to pass a resolution through the city council declaring the Harvard Lampoon castle a public urinal...
...think Bruce’s lecture [on Monday] was very clear and cogent and he got what I think I can describe accurately as very enthusiastic applause at the end,” Faltesek said...
...would certainly like to know. "We went to the Israelis and said, 'What's going on?'" says a senior State Department official. "Their answer was, 'We're going down to the Muqata'a, and we're going to blow up some buildings.' They haven't given us a particularly cogent reason why they decided to do this...