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...climb back onto the moral high ground. "It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make," Clinton said almost immediately after Baer fell on his gavel. Dole, too, accommodated the changed landscape with stunning speed. "I don't suggest we ought to be able to pressure judges, but we ought to be able to criticize [them] when we think they've made a mistake," he said last Wednesday...
...York World's Fair. It was to be such an abnormal book--part history, part novel--that I figured it would be years before I worked up enough courage to write the thing. But when I got home from the hospital, it was clear that I ought just to sit down and do it. To my surprise it was a success; one critic who is quoted in praise of White's book on its cover is quoted on the cover of mine too--a thing the heart treasures. A number of people even bought copies...
...Alliance feel that the treatment shown Mr. Truesdell is an outrage and we would like to offer Mr. Truesdell a non-voting position on our Executive Board. Indeed, we feel that if anybody ought to be apologizing for his behavior, it is not Chuck Truesdell but Brian Malone. In the Alliance, Chuck Truesdell can speak as freely and as openly as he likes-without fear of reprimand from others or possible expulsion...
...decades. Here is a large addition of diversity (and there are, moreover, varieties of Asians) from those who arrived without fanfare and, above all, without the benefit of preferences. If anything, Asians have been victims of affirmative action, but to consider this obvious event, at which partisans of diversity ought to rejoice, might call attention to the stubborn and unwelcome fact of black underperformance, which needs to be buried...
...might be about and then modestly decline overspeculation about the pieces that don't fit." Instead, "these solvers ... throw away the central piece ... and then bring in pieces from other puzzles [i.e., apocryphal manuscripts]. Finally, they take this jumble of pieces, sketch an outline of what the [whole thing] ought to look like on the basis of some universal puzzle pattern, and proceed to reshape the pieces until they fit the pattern." Inevitably, he writes, that pre-determined pattern is dictated by the puzzlers' sociological or political prejudices...