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...know that the reform minion had no control of these melodies, and aside from the mel-odious prayers, the service was enjoyable (and the participants were top notch, if we do say so ourselves). Hillel tried hard to rein in the renegade cantor, convincing him to chant less in the High Holidays themes and more in the familiar everyday melodies...
Never mind, of course, that the Japanese themselves would soon become practitioners of the most odious form of imperialism in China and Korea, or that it would be Americans who would bring that imperialism to an end (in however horrific a fashion...
This argument is understandable. No matter how odious Duranty’s morals and reprehensible his treatment of the famine—while denying it in print, he privately told British diplomats in September 1933 that as many as 10 million people had starved to death—the fate of his 1932 prize should ultimately rest upon the strength of the writing for which...
...Friendster seems like a great way to quantify popularity, or at least to validate self-worth by out-friending peers. But what do we do when people we actively dislike, want nothing to do with or otherwise cannot stomach ask to be our friendsters? Do we accept those odious individuals to up our friendster count or keep them safely unfreindstered...
Dean’s position on Iraq isn’t entirely contrary to Bush’s. He would, unlike dark horse Rep. Dennis Kucinich, keep troops in Iraq. But this campaign promise, made in the most odious of bad faiths, is essentially a promise to demoralize “the boys” and get them out of the Middle East as soon as possible. Does Dean honestly think he’ll get the vote of any American who has even the least bit of love for Bush (well over half at this time), or those...