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...course, this may just be what people think the pollsters want to hear. "There's a real disconnect between what people tell a pollster they want and what they will actually read," says former TIME executive editor Richard L. Duncan. After all, somebody's buying all those "Special Crisis in the White House" editions -- even if they feel bad about it afterward...
...link between the food on the plate and the living, breathing, warm-blooded creature (in the forest or in the commercial gulag-cum-slaughterhouse) is getting thinner by the year, to the point of metaphysical disconnect. The disconnect is a form of stupidity or of moral carelessness. How can anyone object to hunting but also eat meat raised in misery for the slaughterhouse? Who has clean hands? Surely not the consumers of the 38 million cows and calves, the 92 million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered...
...here's a cultural disconnect. People think that [Cambridge] is a progressive town, but the progressive veneer has allowed a lot of inappropriate things to go on unnoticed," Zucker says. "Black folks who've lived in this town are not surprised that discrimination occurs. And the white liberals shouldn't be either...
...personally believe there's a disconnect between the council and the student body," Stewart said. "I think the council has gotten rid of its removed, aristocratic, debating-society image, but we have to further bind ourselves to the student body...
...weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing the talking heads of Washington Week in Review address the, to them, unfathomable topic of why there is a "disconnect" between Washington and folk in the boonies...