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Violence which is in the context of war is paralegal. Or to dumb it down for Buttigieg, if you happen kill people while fighting in Grenada, it is not quite the same as plotting to murder an innocent civilian. Thus, it is nothing extroardinarily damaging in the public eye for a President to be involved in ordering paralegal activities. The state does have a monopoly on violence after...
...want to cut to the chase, a straightforward guide is the way to go. But which one? Some, like Online Dating for Dummies by Judith Silverstein and Michael Lasky (Wiley; 288 pages) are too dumb for their own good. Dummies has the occasional good tip, like avoiding negativity in your profile, but it's packed with no-brainers like "If you don't have e-mail now, you're gonna have to get it" and "Some people, men and women, do seek purely sexual liaisons on the Internet...
...least €21,800 per year. The poorest third would also get grants to defray some of their debts. But Nick Brown, a former Agriculture Minister and leading rebel, thinks this won't help the hardworking lower-middle classes who are Labour's core voters. "This plan would 'dumb down' our people," he argues. For many opponents, the fine points of policy aren't the point. Some want to destabilize Blair to help his chief rival Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Six years into government, there's a sizable clutch of resentful ex-ministers and others stuck...
...irony is that most of Mays' wounds have been self-inflicted during a very public confrontation with Eminem. On Jan. 12, The Source plans to ship out 800,000 copies of a CD on which a young Eminem clumsily raps, "Black girls are dumb, and white girls are good chicks." This should be a major coup for the magazine--a world-famous white rapper uttering a racist phrase--yet somehow it isn't. Eminem has already issued an apology, explaining that the tape is 10 years old and he made it just after breaking up with an African-American girlfriend...
...country. I'm proud of Cesar." But, he adds, "I see the news. I'm scared." Commenting on the arrest of Saddam, Martha says, "We're glad they got him. I hope it's over, but I don't think so." Victor Jr. pitches in: "It's pretty dumb. People are dying when the war is supposedly over." He does not say such things to his brother, however. "I don't want him to feel that I'm not there for him." --By Margot Roosevelt/Los Angeles