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There are two kinds of revolutionaries: those truly committed to the ideals of peace and freedom, and those whose only impulse is to destroy, murder, and plunder. The Palestinian terrorists belong to this second group--under the cover of revolutionary jargon they commit atrocities reminiscent of those committed against the Jewish People by another group of degenerative revolutionaries--the Nazis. To equate Israel's punitive and deterrent raids with the nazi-like bestiality of Palestinian terrorists is patently ridiculous. Though the loss to humanity may be similar, there is a true difference in the aims, rationality, and justification of such...
...understand it, no one else will be able to," says Corbin Gwaltney, 52, editor of the weekly Chronicle of Higher Education. Gwaltney's insistence that his paper avoid insiders' jargon, combined with his lively news sense, has helped to make the seven-year-old Chronicle indispensable to an increasing number of college presidents, trustees, teachers and students. "We stand away from higher education to report on it, just as higher education stands away from the world," explains Gwaltney...
...from the Fogg's collection-works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Copley and Tiepolo-as examples of these modes. The idea is grand, but a grand result never materializes. The exhibit is not organized with the idea that someone who knows nothing about color might want to explore it. That jargon is obscure and not explained is one example of this; another is that the pictures are all numbered, but not hung in numerical order-it's disorienting when no. 7 leads to no. 33. And whoever wrote the captions for the paintings needs to re-read The Elements of Style...
Even when he develops a good point - the influence of Hegeli an philosophy in Engels' thoughts and methods, for example - it is offered in unnecessarily academic jargon. The ironic effect is to transform the hard-eyed yet heart felt observations in Engels' book into anemic abstractions...
Phrases like "you have to be exploitative with sources," and "we decided to hit him hard" orient the onlooker rapidly to Cloherty's everyday battle jargon. Quiet, qualmless talk of a decision to print Watergate grand-jury transcripts in the column, even when "we knew it [news of the cover-up] would come out sooner or later," or of the staff's standard operating procedure to opt against self-censorship "in 99 out of 100 cases" makes the onlooker wonder whether the Anderson Superman world consists of anything other than faster-than-sound scoops and ground rules laid...