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...allow Terri's parents to have the same privileges as an individual sentenced to death--an appeal to the federal courts," says Thomas Price, a Republican Representative from Georgia. That comparison is debatable, but there is no denying that the action will resonate with a small minority of committed members of the religious right. "For people for whom this is murder by the state in a grotesque and inhumane way, this will deepen and harden their energy and activism in ways that will last a lifetime," says former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who while personally conflicted over...
Born and raised in the Gopher State, he’s hundreds of miles from home and playing in a hockey environment that is quite unlike the one he’s been used to. In comparison to the huge crowds and crazy fans of Minnesota, Bright Hockey Center presents a relatively calm ambience...
That’s right, fellow H-bomb droppers, we’ve got bona fide competition now—competition to which Yale pales in comparison. Hear the names of these modern-day behemoths of education and tremble: the 92nd Street Y, Brick Church School, Weekday School at Riverside Church...
...after an impolitic comparison of Stalinist Russia to Nazi Germany, Kennan retired from the government and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where over the course of the next 50 years he published books devoted to twentieth-century diplomatic history. Two of them—“Russia Leaves the War” (1956) and “Memoirs: 1925-1950” (1967)—won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize...
...examples, the word choices and linguistic quirks that necessarily characterize “creative” writing lend an implicit bias to the story. If a lead uses metaphor to enliven descriptions—as the lead about Louie’s does, above—the object of comparison chosen can reflect a biased view. Likening Cheng-san Chen’s departure from Louie’s to the beheading of Charles I doesn’t reflect so well on the former...