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Give President Bush credit for being honest about his dishonesty. Last week he told reporters for the top wire news services - the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg - that Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were doing fabulous work and would remain in their jobs as Defense Secretary and Vice President right up to the end of Bush's second term. Today at his post-election press conference the President more or less admitted he was lying, at least about Rumsfeld...
...required to produce receipts. These receipts are scrupulously checked for costs and dates of purchase, but the other 80 percent are never even seen. While it would be ideal if we could rely on students’ honesty, we now have indisputable evidence that students are not all honest with the party fund. The Finance Committee, which oversees the party fund, is handing out $1700 of student money each weekend, and it must step up and ensure that all the money it distributes does indeed fund parties. To that end, grant recipients should be required to show, at the minimum...
...needs a thesaurus. (Did you know there are at least 40 synonyms for corny?) But Jackson is a sentimentalist with a minimalist's taste in lyrics, so tracks like The Firefly's Song ("I don't want you like I used to/ This old man wants you more") feel honest, especially when sung in his regal baritone. Fellow minimalist Alison Krauss produces, and bans take-it-up-a-notch! key changes and swollen strings. What's left is something worthy of a really good antonym...
DAWKINS: I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now Dr. Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand...
...days when I’m being honest with myself, I’m usually too embarrassed to buy one. But then again, it’s not like your friends–or anyone else who goes to Harvard, for that matter–are going to find you in Central Square anyway...