Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view-points and for a commitment to open-mindedness. It is scary because of the mailer's juvenile effort at intimidation and attempt to stifle free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside, is to learn the subtle difference between the ancient Buddhist symbol which they drew and the swastika which they tried to draw...
...fact that [the Fenno case] is not covered in any statutes or rules doesn't mean that it wouldn't fall within the province of the Ad Board, but it is not a grist of the mill case," Sander said...
...notable for a giant rock formation allegedly resembling a sleeping Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post...
...course, a run-of-the-mill whiner. His whines are of a particularly elevated type. He went to Oxford, after all. At the Prayer Breakfast he took as the text for his complaints a passage from Isaiah: "Thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach." He has used the passage so often lately--it appeared, as well, in his Inaugural speech and the State of the Union--that he may soon attach it to his official title: President of the U.S., Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Repairer of the Breach...
...strange assortment of characters mill into the theater and onto the stage. A few men in short, tight skirts and high heels casually talk with a rastafarian and two star-trek lookalikes, while on the other side of the stage a giant egg rehearses footwork...