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...statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
Both candidates are intelligent and articulate, and if they can restrain themselves from resorting to mean-spirited attacks and sound-byte politics, the one-on-one debates between the two could be something refreshingly different in American politics. Too often, real political debate is passed over for water-downed platitudes in front of the television cameras. We're hopeful that in this primary, with these candidates, that will not be the case...
...least 100,000 homeless and toppled some 6,000 buildings. Relief agencies from around the world, including the U.S., Turkey and Russia, mobilized to help. In financial centers, stocks took a pounding of their own as investors fretted about what the shutdown of Taiwan's microchip industry would mean to the always jumpy electronics sector...
...that doesn't mean they read...
...Mean "Josie" Greene As anyone who has read this column in the past couple of weeks knows, I am still getting the hang of the "pick" thing, and in fact didn't realize until about 20 minutes ago that I didn't have to pick an exact score for each game. So, with that delightful discovery out of the way, I am free to go on making bad picks based solely on my personal feelings about players on each team, and/or the teams' uniforms...