Word: defenders
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Nonetheless, the staff misses the point: they want to save The Tasty because it is the only 24-hour restaurant in the Square, and has been so since time out of mind. A better approach is to defend The Tasty against CSB in the name of community good will and to advocate a capitalist approach to restaurants in the Square...
Still, Reubens is a special case, and not just because his violation of public mores involved the worst sin of them all: masturbation. In addition, Reubens never mounted any effort to defend himself, to apologize for his mistake ion the manner of the estimable Hugh Grant. In fact, he hasn't taken any sort of public stand since he was arrested for indecent exposure in 1991. So, as much as I'd like to believe there's some conspiracy of television executives at work, there's no real way to know that his exile is not self-imposed...
...furor played straight into Lee's vigorous campaign to warn the world of what he sees as dire threats emanating from Beijing. He is convinced the leadership intends to control Hong Kong so tightly that all its current economic and political freedoms will disappear. While Tung was struggling to defend his unpopular proposals, Lee enjoyed a triumphant tour of the U.S., including a symbolically important chat with President Clinton. Lee's Democrats threatened to mount protest marches on hand-over night in deliberate violation of the proposed restrictions and tie up the courts in a skein of lawsuits if Tung...
...Intel's new 64-bit chip, code-named Merced and expected in 1999. "This is a serious issue," Digital's chief technology officer Bill Strecker insisted to TIME. "Our intention is to take this case through to trial." An Intel spokesman says the company is innocent and will defend itself with all due vigor...
Maybe the idea here was to dampen the economic insecurity induced by Deep Blue. During the Kasparov match, there were many references to John Henry, who in legend died trying to defend his job against the incessant march of technology--in his case, the steam-powered drill. After pondering that outcome, and Deep Blue's triumph, people naturally find it reassuring to be reminded that chess is an artificial endeavor, hardly central to our lives or our livelihoods, and that computers still can't make meaningful small talk...