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...Still, if companies want to sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest - the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work...
People who own tigers feel differently. Yates said, "He's like my brother, my best friend, my only friend really." A professional handler like Fischbacher presumably has a more realistic view of the big cats. Still, he insisted on Good Morning America last week that the tiger Montecore did not really mean to attack Horn, who suffered a stroke after the incident and remains in critical condition. Montecore, insists his owner, thought Horn was in trouble and used a little excessive force in helping out a buddy. Even if that is true--and plenty of animal-behavior experts would dispute...
...very women they say that they want to help. They antagonize politically neutral crisis pregnancy centers that provide objective options and counseling to all women facing unplanned pregnancies, material resources to women who choose to carry to term and abortion recovery counseling for those who do not. They insist that the emotional effects of abortion are fabricated, offering no support to women who regret their choice. When Harvard Right to Life (HRL) ran a poster series last year with images of the developing fetus to educate students about human development, the posters were vandalized and torn down so frequently that...
...similar effect by declaring his communion with them "impaired" and withholding invitations to Communion events.) The most lenient outcome that conservatives might accept would be a theological knuckle rap and a probationary period during which ECUSA would be expected to repent by retracting Robinson's episcopacy. American liberals insist that the primates have never produced that specific a demand. And since their meetings customarily end with a statement made by consensus, stubborn opposition by a handful of liberals could force a milder conclusion. Others have suggested an option more in keeping with the Anglican penchant for "muddling through." Last Friday...
...color of one’s skin or one’s religious beliefs. Maybe more economically successful individuals were raised in wealthy towns, could afford to be sent to private schools and pay for expensive SAT tutors and so on. Some see this as unfair, and insist that these people should be forced to give some of their excesses to those who have nothing at all. But this assumes that the accidental facts of one’s life can be used as a measure of an American citizen’s individual rights. Those who have been given...