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...point, which helped galvanize public opposition to the war. (Was it too late for inclusion in the film, or too easy a target?) Nor, when he asserts that "18,000 of them [Americans] will die each year simply because they didn't have health insurance," does he trouble to note that that's more than five times the number of U.S. military deaths in the four-plus years of the Iraq occupation...
...both men raised the issue in meetings with the rest of the Administration's national-security team. Yet no action was taken until mid-January, when Specialist Joseph Darby, a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, got hold of some of the incriminating photographs. He slipped an anonymous note under the door of a superior officer, reporting the misbehavior, and then turned over the photos proving...
...your stuff at a study space and bounce. There’s nothing more annoying than trudging to the library only to find all the desks “occupied,” half of them by phantom students who left their books there to claim territory. On that note, sprawling is bad for the environment—don’t take up more than one desk with all of your crap. Don’t take off your shoes if you know your feet may poison the air—especially rain boots after your socks are sopping...
...magazine in the tradition of YM and Seventeen, a frivolous book of fluff that was not so much amateurish as exuberant and joyously faithful to its genre. “Sometimes, we all need to relax,” Sebastian wrote in her inaugural editor’s note, “Yeah, George Orwell has his uses—but so does Jennifer Crusie. Never underestimate the value of making people feel good.”I’m guessing a lot of people made fun of Freeze when they read it, but skunks aside it was obvious...
...unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...