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...mistake, however, to dismiss him as a mouthpiece for McCain or as just another American neoconservative, for he is neither. Kagan is a realist, to be sure, reminiscent of earlier public intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Reinhold Niebuhr and Walter Lippmann. The Return of History clocks in at a mere 100 pages. Its style is conversational, and it feels more like a breezy lecture than a weighty foreign-policy tome. Still, its message is sober and its argument subtle...
...farm commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel downplayed the changes to Europe's Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) she unveiled Tuesday as a mere "health check". Her proposals, she said, are "all about freeing our farmers to meet growing demand and respond quickly to what the market is telling them...
...third varsity four muscled past the Tigers to finish second in 8:21.691 seconds, edging out Princeton by 2.4 seconds and finishing a mere 4.2 seconds behind Wisconsin...
...state’s definition of marriage, a definition upheld by Proposition 22. Gay people were given the freedom to marry people of the opposite sex—an admittedly unsatisfying right—whereas straight people were not entitled to marry people of the same sex. The mere fact that a measure has different (albeit disproportionate) effects on a particular class does not constitute discrimination unless the measure was passed with discriminatory intent...
...Netflix claims it's the biggest selection available anywhere - it's still relatively modest. While we could watch all seasons of The Office, there were no HBO series, for instance. A Netflix spokesman pointed out that the company launched its DVD subscription business in 1999 with a mere 3,900 titles; it offers 100,000 now. So, while it's not yet video dial tone, we're off to a great start...