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...wouldn't have been the first time Earth's climate was altered by a large incoming object. Thirty million years earlier, the impact of the asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs enshrouded the Earth in dust that blocked sunlight and caused temperatures to fall. But that shroud dissipated, possibly in a matter of months, and the climate quickly warmed up again. Whatever caused the Eocene cooling must have lingered much longer...
Would the Quincy Junior Common Room be open? Would the TV turn on (mind you, I live in Quincy)? And, most importantly, would the room be free of conscientious objectors? I trembled at the notion of puritanical types who might object to watching a dysfunctional family of murderous and blasphemous crack-peddling Mafiosi...
...Georgians fear that the object of any Russian military retaliation will be not simply to punish them for harboring Chechen rebels, but also to weaken Shevardnadze, already unpopular at home because he presides over a corrupt regime. Moscow's ideal outcome is Shevardnadze's ouster and replacement by a more pro-Russian leader...
Parents also object to the way administrators have developed and proposed the merger plans, saying the process has been too secretive...
...vaunted vanity of academia, these lessons are recast in subtler terms. Sharing becomes “social justice.” Cooperation becomes “discourse.” Not hurting other people’s feelings becomes “tolerance.” Who could possibly object to such lovely, “nuanced” values...