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...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright, safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in a Chinese restaurant
...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright, i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the neighborhood's numerous Chinese restaurants...
...first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing. So did Ike. And so did Russell...
Back in Washington, Nunn brought in a military luminary to dim all others. "In every case that I'm familiar with," said retired General H. Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm fame, "when it became known in a unit that someone was openly homosexual, polarization occurred, violence sometimes followed, morale broke down, and unit effectiveness suffered." Schwarzkopf argued that the military had its hands full with deep defense cuts, troop reductions and base closures. He also offered a graphic description of how military leaders would respond to any order to integrate gays into the forces: "They will be just like many...
...unfunniness alone does not offend me, nor do poor drawing skills. In the past, I have been known to read both Dim Wits and Jody without a word of complaint. But when a generally poor quality of cartoon is combined with one infantile poke at women after another, then I begin to feel that something should be said...