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This weak-kneed politicizing was evident even in an otherwise praiseworthy act of the Senate. Monday night, the upper house approved a bill increasing financial assistance to college students in the Commonwealth by roughly $25 million. While the move was a helpful gesture, students should realize that it came only after a similar bill stalled last year. The apparent reason for the delay was that the bill included the politically unwise provision of funding the aid by increasing cigarette taxes. The tobacco lobby carried more weight on Beacon Hill than the active student lobby, and the measure went nowhere...
Pacing off a precise 3½ steps from the base, Henderson screws his cleats firmly into the dirt and crouches knock-kneed, like Jerry Lewis imitating a baseball player. When the pitcher releases the ball, however, Henderson, having received the go sign from Martin, accelerates into hyperdrive. In two steps he reaches full speed, and a few strides later dives head long into the dirt-a timesaver that makes his body vulnerable to an opponent's cleats and knees. "I don't hit the ground too hard," he explains. "I come in like an airplane." By the time...
...Cage dealt with effeminate homosexual homebodies, too. But Veber fails to recapture any of that film's charm and wit. Most important, Veber presented the characters in La Cage affectionately. Partners is, if anything, mean-spirited. It doesn't introduce a single homosexual who isn't rendered weak-kneed or babbling by O'Neal's chest, eyes or "fabulous" thighs...
During processing at the police station, one of the men kneed an officer in the groin and was charged with assault and battery on a police officer...
...scot-free while accomplishing his purpose. Think of how often in the past year "well informed" newspaper stories about policy debates over Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq have implied that National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Pentagon are decisive and tough, while the State Department is waffling and weak-kneed...