Word: commonality
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Morgan and PSLM have decided to use the Teamsters as their cause-celebre to advocate their own brand of political warfare. They have clearly demonstrated their willingness to ignore facts and common decency in exchange for headlines. Morgan, PLSM and PBHA should all hang their heads in shame for the campaign of malicious propoganda and personal attacks which they have directed against my mother. --Alex Herzlinger...
Judging from the popular response to the Common Era's fast-approaching 2000th birthday, the Two-Thousand-Year Old Man must marvel at how little we have changed. With only three or four years to go (depending on whom you ask) until the dawn of the next millennium, the commotion is already reaching a fever-pitch...
...current celebrity derives from his many prophesies. His Les Propheties, begun in 1554, consists of 10 volumes, each containing 100 cryptic quartrains (hence the work's common English name, "The Centuries"). John Hogue, a self-styled "Nostradamian," has edited a recently published version of the work entitled Nostradamus: The Complete Prophesies. Hogue fancies himself something of a prophet in his own right and his commentaries give new meaning to the term "exegesis." Nonetheless, he does reproduce the original, archaic French text, so I sat down with his volume to discover what all the clamor was about...
...fact, however, there is no evidence that El Ninos are caused or intensified or made more frequent by global warming. Indeed, the only thing global warming and El Nino have in common is that they are both about a warming. So is making toast...
...carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin Hood element in it." Not your common thug...