Word: logical
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Consider the tortured logic and faux piety behind the G.O.P.'s excuses for inaction. Newt Gingrich, prattling on about free-market sanctity, says ``every other industry'' would seek relief if Congress intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other...
...They're trying to understand the logic behind the recommendations," Fox said. "So far they're coming to the conclusion these were almost entirely financial concerns. There were no legal requirements, no policy requirements...
...Bussell gave of future greatness. She started late, at age 13, at London's Royal Ballet School, where her contemporaries were already at the third level. Patricia Linton, an important teacher there, remembers telling her she had better hurry up or give up. "Darcey took it in stride, the logic of training. All her moves were generous, and she had a lovely, open honesty...
Here's the logic: Boston needs more parking,and being a large city, doesn't really need thatmuch park. Besides, trees are overrated. So let'sfell a few hundred of them and put a largeconcrete and steel parking garage right on theCommon. Maybe the trees will help to absorb thenoise and pollution. Isn't progress grand...
...anyone interested in dance, Croce's ability to inflame does not come as a surprise. For the past 22 years at the New Yorker, she has written stringent criticisms that though models of logic and clarity, can also sting. A devotae of George Balanchine, whose biography she is writing, she has unmercifully chastised Peter Martins, his successor as artistic director of the New York City Ballet, when she felt he was flouting the master's style. Her judgments have resonated through the ballet world...