Word: corrections
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...said that war is hell. If war is hell, who is the culpable evildoer? Saddam Hussein calls George Bush "Satan," and Bush calls Hussein the "Butcher of Baghdad." So who is the real warlock? To the dismay of the unequivocal supporters of either Hussein or Bush, both epithets are correct in that both are responsible for much of the world's recent fiendishness. This is obviously distasteful news to our self-censoring listeners who ignore their own country's fallacies. But facts are facts...
...word stumbles awkwardly off the tongue, all 16 didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the above. But if a new group of centrist academics -- sociologists, political scientists and law professors -- has its way, the term will soon take a place among the important isms that shape the U.S. political dialogue...
...wasting" to engage in the fight. End of article, and end of reasoning too, I would imagine. Or we can, while we are here, share our feelings and attitudes with each other, and perhaps devise a way of dealing with what lies beyond Johnston Gate in that less 'politically correct' world we so soon will be heading back into...
Kevorkian vowed that he would use his machine again "under the correct circumstances." If he does, there may be little his opponents can do about it: murder charges brought against him for Mrs. Adkins' suicide were dismissed last December in part because Michigan has no law against physician-assisted suicide...
...Paine Hall were intolerant of the Black comedy program "In Living Color," after which I patterned my routine. I assume Mr. Templeton's failure to address the jokes aimed at Blacks was simply an oversight (an egregious one), and that he finds such self-parody offensive and not "politically correct." If that is the case, I would still much prefer to be "incorrect" any day, as I do not share such an outlook...