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...outlets, they supply most of his information. His sources are inside the media, not (usually) inside the institutions they cover. His scoops--including this one--are generally stuff the grownups either have declined to publish or are about to publish. Having pilfered other folks' material, Drudge has the considerable gall to emblazon his own E-mail dispatches with the warning, WORLD EXCLUSIVE. MUST CREDIT THE DRUDGE REPORT...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effects. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludcrous...
...wonder if some of the incidents of patient awareness during surgery might result from hospitals' attempts to control costs by not overmedicating, Maybe the health-maintenance-organization executive who could feel the surgeon make incisions when she underwent laparoscopic gall-bladder surgery was getting a taste of her own medicine. An HMO executive can really get concerned about the quality of care when it is her own. JOHN A. DILLE Naperville...
...apart a large tree, so that half a dozen troopers are required to fire for fully a minute and a half into just one of these creatures to kill it--never mind that there are literally thousands more swarming behind it. Imagine the audacity, then, the presumption, the unmitigated gall, for the movie Starship Troopers to expect the audience to be stunned, shocked, dismayed, titillated at the notion that these guys are going to eaten by the bugs. "See, look," the movie seems to say to you, "they're being eaten by bugs. Aren't you horrified...
...word. And lastly, AOL commits to unlimited access for $19.95 to get us yahoos to join, and now reneges on its promise while planning to charge us extra for its new games area. Then Joshua Cooper Ramo, in "How AOL Lost the Battles but Won the War," has the gall to call me "cantankerous"! I think I have every right! PAUL DEEMING St. Paul, Minn...