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That commission has turned up several witnesses whose accounts directly contradict the government's official explanation. But the investigation is just one of the thorns in Marcos' side. On the southern island of Mindanao and elsewhere, some of the 10,000 armed Communist insurgents belonging to the New People's Army have gathered enough popular support to operate what amounts to local surrogate governments. In the absence of financial support from abroad, moreover, thousands of citizens are destined for unemployment and hundreds of factories for closure. The coming election may only compound Marcos' woes...
...some of the family by huddling close to the ground makes an allegorical point the cleverest way to weather totalitarian storms is to lay low and wait for them to pass over Donoso uses satire as a way of bringing out his allegory, but at times the two messages contradict each other almost as it the novel is questioning the validity of both device...
What Bouvia is requesting is not a lethal injection, but it may be construed as equally wrong: because her doctors would be forced not only to witness, but also to hasten her suicide. And it is readily understandable that this would contradict many of the implications of the Hippocratic oatch on which their profession is based...
...Four, the testimony of personal friends who would not have dreamed of predicting his views, on any subject, might be heeded. "I understood him up to a point," says Author V.S. Pritchett. "It was hard to define him because just when you had fixed on a view, he would contradict it." Novelist Julian Symons remembers "a quality of perversity" in Orwell: "He had a characteristic directness which upset people and made him a lot of enemies." Malcolm Muggeridge recalls a man "who utterly despised intellectuals and people he used to refer to, scornfully, as wearing sandals...
...contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself," cried Walt Whitman. The creation of a baby is full of paradoxes and illogicalities. The cost of raising a child to 18, approaching $100,000 in the U.S., according to one estimate, would deter any sensible