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...such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York City psychiatrist. "Each of us has our favorite object of constancy. Many Americans have picked Coke." Adds Pepper: "People felt outraged and ripped off because there was an implicit and explicit contract between the Coke drinker and the company. There was unilateral abrogation of that contract when the company changed the formula...
...band’s ars poetica of sorts—to catalog and re-combine disparate particles and fragments of language into a synthetic whole. The cut-and-pasted audio material creates a surreal sort of ‘exquisite corpse’ effect, not so much relating an explicit story as exposing an unconscious mood or psychic backdrop. In extreme cases, their own lyrical contribution is literally reduced to mere finger-snapping, as in “it never changes to stop...
...order for the six-party talks to restart, there should be the right justifications and conditions. This means an explicit apology from the United States for the 'outpost of tyranny' remark." HAN SONG RYOL, deputy chief of North Korea's U.N. mission, calling for the U.S. to retract Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on the Hermit Kingdom and to agree to discuss mutual nuclear disarmament...
...government system. It is this choice that makes PRAs a good addition to Social Security, even if the current system were not in trouble. In addition, the claim that PRAs will hurt Social Security’s finances is wrong. By borrowing to fund PRAs, the government substitutes explicit liabilities (government bonds) for unfunded liabilities (future promised benefits). The total liabilities of the federal government do not change...
...commonly referred to as a declaration on religious liberty. But what made this document revolutionary was its total renunciation of the use of coercion in defense of the truth. It overturned a tradition of sanctioned violence that went back to Constantine and St. Augustine. Paul VI made its meaning explicit by going before the U.N. General Assembly to declare, "No more war! War never again!" This was a reversal of Pope Urban II's 1095 call for the Crusades: "God wills...