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While Walsh was joined by six other councillors in passing the motion, Councillors Alice K. Wolf and Francis H. Duehay '55 said blaming the press was a "red herring issue...
Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...
Teachers call tenure a red herring raised by politicians to avoid dealing with the real problems plaguing American public education, like poor curriculums and overcrowded classrooms. Shanker argues that tenure is strongly rooted in countries routinely cited for their superior educational systems, like Japan and Germany. The issue, says Shanker, is not job security but the ethos in countries that prize educational achievement. "Mothers and fathers in those societies know there are serious consequences for not doing well at school," he says. "In Germany, if a student doesn't pass a national exam, he can't go to college...
Essentially, tarpon are huge archaic herring. In Florida they regularly grow to 150 lbs. (the world record on fly is 188 lbs.), but in Belize they are smaller, up to about 100 lbs. They are beautiful creatures, sheathed in scales the size of silver dollars, glittering, pugnacious, spooky and inedible: the only thing you can do with a tarpon, in the unlikely event that you catch it, ) is let it go. But as a rule you have no choice about letting a tarpon go. It just goes...
...striking example of this denial can be seen in some recent reactions to acquaintance rape--now declared a "PC" issue and thus an hystericized red herring presented by rabid feminists to emasculate...