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...have to be an expert or a scholar to write for an encyclopedia. To contribute to wikipedia.org an online encyclopedia, all you need is Web access. Wikipedia ("wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word for fast) invites visitors to create new entries or edit existing ones. This may sound like a recipe for chaos--a disclaimer on the site reads, "It is of course possible for biased, out-of-date or incorrect information to be posted." But since thousands of people review updates and changes every day, false information usually gets corrected. Created in 2001, the free, nonprofit site currently...
...opportunity to focus on his passions and to write and edit major publications like the Super Bowl program was only one of the reasons behind Veneziano’s departure. The primary reason, he said, was a desire to spend more time with his family; he has two young children, Mattie and Ryan, that he doesn’t want to miss playing youth soccer...
...Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed stable of consultants and pollsters--the very same geniuses who brought you the dreadful 2000 Gore campaign and the Democrats' even more dreadful 2002 campaign. Their presence reinforces Kerry's tendency to carefully edit every word he utters. His campaign seems massaged, tactical--an act of marketing rather than of conviction. His Senate vote authorizing the war in Iraq is Exhibit A. Unlike Dean, Kerry has longtime antiwar credentials. He investigated the Reagan Administration's support for the contras and opposed the first Gulf...
...Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed stable of consultants and pollsters-the very same geniuses who brought you the dreadful 2000 Gore campaign and the Democrats' even more dreadful 2002 campaign. Their presence reinforces Kerry's tendency to carefully edit every word he utters. His campaign seems massaged, tactical-an act of marketing rather than of conviction. His Senate vote authorizing the war in Iraq is Exhibit A. Unlike Dean, Kerry has longtime antiwar credentials. He investigated the Reagan Administration's support for the contras and opposed the first Gulf...
...unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter type of axioms as "self-evident" truths. By using the word "sacred," Jefferson had implied, intentionally or not, that the principle in question--the equality of men and their endowment by their creator with inalienable rights--was an assertion of religion. Franklin's edit turned it instead into an assertion of rationality...