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...Still, Stroger has refused to step down nor turn over his duties to anyone else. In a clear sign of the robust health of the county's political machine, few of Stroger's colleagues on the Cook County Board of Commissioners will even dare to publicly hint that he should resign. Stroger's office says that the president's chief of staff is making day-to-day decisions after receiving guidance from the ailing President, who's been in and out of the hospital since the stroke. Stroger was first elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners...
...Sunday the top three finishers have a brain-off in front of the judges and several hundred non-winners. In 2005 the finalists were Sanders, Payne and Hinman. We wouldn't dare say who took home the trophy, except to note that the most dangerous word in the final puzzle was 1 Across. The clue: "Stark and richly detailed, as writing...
...knew of the existence of bacteria and carcinogens, so many put the cause down to sinful behavior, but now we know better. To say illnesses are due to sin is ridiculous and degrading to those who suffer from them. Sarah Jane Gilmour East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. How dare that self-righteous evangelist even hint that Jesus would heal people with AIDS and tell them, "Go and sin no more." I ask Graham, What sin did a newborn commit to come into this world with HIV? What sin did an unsuspecting person given a blood transfusion commit to get tainted blood...
...believe what she says - if you talk with her mother, whos even more conservative, youll know that she does - but she knows that outrage is the blunt cousin of argument, that irony is more accessible than a thousand position papers. She knows that saying what no one else would dare to say will get her attention. It works every time, as it did this week when Coulter attacked one of America's most hallowed, untouchable figures - the 9/11 victim...
...anything... can amount to a life force." I don't think it takes great courage for Coulter to sit safely behind her Mac, buzzing on Nicorette in the wee hours and inventing new insults for Ted Kennedy and Osama Bin Laden. But no American public intellectual would dare read Coulter's polemics so closely as some read Fallaci. Instead, they prefer to call her a "skank," as essayist James Wolcott...