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...transported, their children not educated. If your libertarian opponent will admit that prejudice exists, he will be hard-pressed to show that segregation would not be the inevitable result of his perfect free market economy. Compare the benefits of segregation--freedom to hate as one wishes--with its disadvantages. Grab some passing minority-group member by the elbow, and ask if he'd enjoy living in a system that guaranteed his political freedom but allowed some rich white WASP to, say, exclude him from Harvard...
...jump in there and literally grab people left and right and drag them back across the river. The the parties start, and a few days later we figure out who we want and who we don't want...
Tents were quickly set up to house them at four sprawling encampments outside the city. As survivors arrived, many frantically hunted for their families. Wailed one man: "I just had time to grab my wife and run clear as our house collapsed, but our children were trapped inside. I don't know if they are alive or dead." Other people grimly carried their dead to the Muslim cemeteries on hillsides on the outskirts of the city. An old man with a long memory and the look of shock still in his eyes tearfully surveyed the devastation and said: "This...
...growth stock, scientists are more circumspect. Says Walter Miller, a University of California researcher: "To buy stock in these companies right now would require an enormous leap of faith and an assumption about which company will be most successful." Nevertheless, investors are expected to rush to grab the first shares of Genentech...
Those stats include two TD tosses, one a masterful 65-yard connection to McLeese, and the other a one yard lob to Mike Elliot. McLeese made an acrobatic grab, luded three Mather defenders, and then trucked 30 additional yards to score. He was injured on another long gainer midway through the second half and had to leave the game, but at last report was recovering nicely in Stillman Infirmary. Probably the whole Lowell Squad wishes it were in there with...