Word: mill
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With the release of these data, a debate once cluttered by factual uncertainty is now presented in its starkest terms: Harvard admits a large number of substantially less qualified students on the basis of their skill on the playing field or, to quote J.S. Mill, "merely for having taken the trouble to be born...
...grist for her artistic mill is the jagged facts of her life. To sort these out you have to suspend normal conventions of reality and place yourself in her screenplay childhood. "Other people's fantasy was my reality," she says...
Patrons at the Blue Mill Tavern in New York City's Greenwich Village last Monday were greeted by a rare sight: the TV set in the bar was tuned not to Monday Night Football but to a documentary on PBS. On Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Kennedy, a Yankee Democrat, and Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican, were riveted by the same show. Across the U.S., people debated the battlefield tactics of Robert E. Lee, marveled at the letter-writing eloquence of Civil War soldiers and traded stories of ancestors who fought in the nation's great holocaust...
PROPAGANDA MILL. Saddam's flacks are telling radio and TV audiences that American soldiers "are drinking alcohol, eating pork and practicing prostitution." A clandestine radio station claims that 40% of U.S. servicemen are infected with the AIDS virus...
...longer and crankier these days, thanks to chronic shortages. Biding one's time to buy soap or bread has become the form of public life most readily available to the masses. Soviets spend so much time waiting that the lines have generated a culture all their own: part rumor mill, information exchange, social club and town meeting...