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...live in an age in which the free flow of ideas and information is constantly being restricted: Copyrights are longer than ever and entertainment industry lobbyists are attempting to make even attempted copyright violation a crime with a potential 10-year sentence. Our God-given right as readers to as many magnet-school satires as the market will bear is under assault. I vote with whoever first said that good artists borrow and great artists steal...
...then there’s Holsey’s athleticism. It manifests itself in a slithery move to the basket; an elegant dish to the outside; an effortless jump shot that she hits with startling regularity.“She’s just smooth, with God-given speed off that first step that just scares people,” Sidwell Friends coach Ann Reninger told The Washington Post in 2002. Holsey was 17 at the time. “When you have a great first step, you are great,” Reninger added. “You don?...
...over whether to come into work by tube today. ?It scares the living daylights out of you, doesn?t it?? he said. ?I felt hesitant, I asked myself whether it was safe, but why should I let someone else dictate what I want to do? No one has the God-given right to stop me living my life...
What happened in Geneva was participatory summitry. Reagan went about his business as he always does in that environment, firmly rooted in Thomas Jefferson's doctrine that freedom is a God-given right and James Madison's conviction that some participants will try to corrupt freedom, but more will try to protect...
...Alaskan oil can reduce our dependence on the Middle East, that coal can be cleaned to the point where its environmental footprint is negligible, and that we can be isolated from the problems of poverty and environmental destruction in Africa. We live in an interconnected world. It is our god-given responsibility to ensure that its proper order is respected...