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...despite every prediction to the contrary, Lehman stood on the 18th tee only a shot behind Jose Maria Olazabal. His course management flawless, his shot execution nerveless, Lehman had parried the best broadsides from the newest galleon in the Spanish Armada, and victory still lay within his grasp...
Ifelt that I was beginning to grasp the complexities of Jewish thought and culture. Perhaps my engagement with the Other was reaching its climax. "Thank you," I said to Dan. "Through your careful explanations, I feel like I have finally experienced Harvard's diversity...
Take health care. The Clintons did not just offer their plan as a needed reform of an old and inefficient system. They had to portray the existing system as the workings of "price gouging, cost shifting" and "profiteering" bogeymen -- the greedy insurers, drug makers and doctors from whose malevolent grasp the Clintons and their bureaucrats would free...
...serious intellectual debate is nothing more than a call for didactic and patronizing writing. Instead of allowing editorialists to make complicated arguments in creative ways, Yoon wants us all to reject satire, wit and the fine traditions of Swift, Pope and Rabelais. Simply because he does not (or cannot) grasp more difficult genres doesn't mean that all writers must do away with them, however...
...expiring session of the Virginia general assembly approved a $163 million package of incentives for roads, highway signs, worker training and tourism promotion designed to entice embattled Disney to stay in the Old Dominion. Final victory for the innovative park project is sensed, but not yet in Disney's grasp. There are many memories of how one invader or another snatched defeat from the jaws of victory back when Robert E. Lee strode this countryside...