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...PICTURE…. We do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare...
...Owe So Much, Peso Little In the largest debt restructuring of modern times, Argentina persuaded the bulk of 500,000 creditors to swallow losses of up to 70% on the $102.6 billion they were owed when Argentina defaulted on its payments...
...administration?s credit that it has repeatedly insisted it will accept the choices of the Iraqi voters, even when those obviously conflict with U.S. preferences. Such flexibility will be indispensable if the Arab democracy project is to be much more than a slogan, because if Iraqi voters who arguably owe their new democracy to U.S. military intervention nonetheless voted against the U.S., there's no reason to believe the outcome would be different in the other key Arab autocracies - genuine democracy would likely produce governments less friendly towards the United States than are the current crop of autocrats...
...greatest journalists of the last 50 years owe their success to lies and bourbon. Really. Seymour Hersh was a freelancer working for a no-name syndication agency when he heard a tip, blagged his way into a military attorney’s office (a tactic he has since called “smarmy”), and hunted down Lieutenant William J. Calley. He broke the story on the My Lai Massacre after he bought Calley steak and bourbon...
...sets of recommendations that we have before us now are related to the fundamental mission of [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences],” Kirby said. “More than one hundred colleagues have worked on the several curricular committees over the past two years. We owe it to everyone to discuss the results of their work...