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...reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, branding the hillsides with projections of Fendi's double F logo. Before the first ever fashion show to be held on the structure, Arnault and his wife, Hélène stopped to snap their own photos of the views and TIME's Marion Hume talked to the world's seventh richest man about luxury in China...
...party." And he stood firm on the war in Iraq, as expected, and against torture, even when presented with a Fox News scenario in which terrorists with information about an imminent attack had been captured. The other candidates said they opposed torture but favored "enhanced interrogation techniques." Moderator Brit Hume asked McCain if he thought "enhanced ... techniques" were torture. He said yes, which didn't seem to go over with the audience but endeared him to sane people everywhere else...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...
...equivocator would answer it in this way: “Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of the conditions around him, colored by his own personality...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...