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...ever encountered ads for "fresh" ground beef or "pizza" by the slice, you know all too well the scourge of inappropriate quotation marks. And no one mocks misplaced punctuation better than the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. (See the 25 best blogs...
...Rumsfeld Afghanistan.' LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina Senator, referring to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's decision--now widely perceived to have been a mistake--to limit the number of troops on the ground in Iraq; Graham is lobbying to deploy more soldiers to Afghanistan...
...spending proposal that never got off the ground. Almost as quickly as the U.S. House of Representatives could add $330 million to the budget to bolster the government's luxury-jet fleet, public outcry prompted House leaders to strip the four proposed new aircraft from next year's defense-spending bill...
...idea that rugby occupies the gentlemanly high ground of sport, that there is more honor in it than in football or cricket because players don't talk back to referees and have a few pints together afterwards, that's been exposed as the fallacy it always was," wrote Oliver Holt in Wednesday's Daily Mirror newspaper. Still, rugby's troubling evolution may yet be halted - as long as the sport and its players respond to the bloodgate scandal with remedial action, and refuse to simply regard it as a distraction they can forget when the controversy blows over...
...Thursday that she was bitterly disappointed that he had been freed. There was also strong criticism from family members of some of the victims; 259 passengers were killed when a bomb exploded mid-air aboard the doomed aircraft over Lockerbie, Scotland, and 11 others who were on the ground died from falling debris. (Read: "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy...