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...meaning critics may propose that there is no grammatical problem and the new verse’s object is in fact “throng” rather than “jubilee.” If this is true, these critics only have succeeded in crafting a grammatically correct, but awkward sentence as they change “throng” from a verb to a noun. I am not exactly sure what a “jubilee throng” is, jubilee being the adjective apparently, but I am sure they can convolute some meaning into the phrase...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...true to the original intentions of Michelangelo’s ceilinged masterpieces. The 1994 revision of “Fair Harvard,” however, completely departed from Gilman’s original meaning. It seemed that the fair alums of Harvard were so anxious to adopt a politically correct alternative to the first verse that they overlooked the artistic integrity of the piece as a whole...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...Klein is almost correct when he states that the ABC News debate in Philadelphia "will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions". But the questions weren't so much vulgar as they were vapid. The only thing moderator Charles Gibson forgot to do was follow Barbara Walters' infamous example and ask Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton what kind of trees they would be. Holmes Brannon, Woodland Park, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Klein is almost correct when he states that the ABC News debate in Philadelphia "will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions" [May 5]. But the questions weren't so much vulgar as they were vapid. The only thing moderator Charles Gibson forgot to do was follow Barbara Walters' infamous example and ask Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton what kind of trees they would be. Holmes Brannon, WOODLAND PARK, COLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shrinking Democrats | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...waiting press corps as the Blairs said farewell to Downing Street last June. Now, by publishing her autobiography, she's invited fresh and closer scrutiny. She took the risk, says the source, because she wanted "to tell her version of the reality behind the many myths and try to correct the distorted representation of her that evolved from years of negative press ... Her book is a love story and a journey which the reader travels on with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherie Blair Has Her Say | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

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