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...even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least. Michael Zimmer Los Angeles...
...common business practices" like structuring tax shelters, in which "the line between merely wrong and criminal interpretations of the tax code are hazy." And if a crime occurred, "you need to know who up the line had responsibility," he says, "and that is extraordinarily difficult to determine in the context of a large corporation." Especially in a criminal case, in which witnesses can plead the Fifth rather than incriminate themselves with explanations...
...train on this," said one, referring to Cheney's role in pushing Bush and the Administration inexorably toward an invasion of Iraq. "Analysis, advocacy - it's all done by Cheney or his protégés or his former mentor [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld]. It's about context. It's reflective not so much of Cheney's direct influence on the President as it is of his influence on - his dominance of - the decision-making process. It's about providing the facts and analysis to the decision maker that the decision maker needs. Bush is making the decision...
...professional or school tasks. That's a mistake, Allen says. You're the same person at home and at the office (or school). It's more effective to maintain a unified list of all of your tasks. Keep it on paper, not in your overloaded head. Organize tasks by context rather than according to whether they're professional or personal. In other words, if you have calls to make, whether to work colleagues or to the babysitter or cable guy, tag them in your to-do list as things to do when you've got a few minutes...
...safe assumption, seeing as everyone I’ve spoken to who has seen previous Pudding shows has agreed with me that 159 is perhaps the best Pudding show in recent history. The review indicated to me as a reader that the Pudding show was being viewed out of context...