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...believe him. Anyone looking for an arresting profile of a guy with a history of significant adversity and zero tolerance for b.s. would be well advised to check out the hourlong documentary on Young that aired this year. In an era when "keeping it real" is the mantra for every studio-created pretender, it's worth being reminded what "real" really...
...related view of "Death of a Salesman," one that not only applies to our generation but also has direct influence on Harvard students. It has to do with Willy's motto, the one that he lives by: "It's important to be well-liked." It is this mantra which leads Willy to denigrate his neighbors and friends, a trait that he imbues to his children at the expense of pursuing their education and that leads him down the path to self-destruction. The fundamental truth Miller reveals is that the flipside of always trying to be well-liked is that...
...statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...idea of storks delivering children, a notion I was never that vehement about but was certainly familiar with, exploded with the decidedly non-avian birth of my sister. As I learned the standard magic card tricks that would only excite wonder in sympathetic adults or gullible children, the familiar mantra that "it's just a trick, there is no magic" began to grow in credibility...
...thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none of the ballots should count. A similar suit was filed Friday against Martin County, another wealthy, predominantly Republican county. G.O.P. officials have belittled the charges as baseless attempts to throw out perfectly good votes, anathema to the "count every vote" mantra of the Gore camp. But the Bush team has sent two powerhouse attorneys to attack the sleeper case before it gobbles up the election...