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...nation of nations, something former PP leader in Catalonia Aleix Vidal-Quadras calls "a political, logical and semantic absurdity." He asks, "Can you have a bicycle of bicycles, a chair of chairs, a moon of moons?" "Why not?" replied another Catalan, Augusti Fancelli, in an article in El País this month. Isn't the Bible "the book of books," Don Quixote "the novel of novels"? Didn't Gertrude Stein say a rose is a rose is a rose? When I first visited Spain, even to speak in hushed tones in a bar about royal succession, homosexuality or statutes...
...have I read such forthright material, stripping away all the spin and directly addressing an economic situation that will devastate all too many middle-class Americans. I appreciate the honest manner in which the report exposed both the coercion of corporations and the complicity of Congress. WILLIAM OVERLY Lancaster, Pa...
...Thomas Badian was living the high life. Registered in his name was a two-seat 1998 Aston Martin. "He told me he liked to put the top down and take a long drive," recalls Pet Quarters' Dempsey. "I asked him if he'd like to drive out to Humboldt [Pa.] to take a look at our distribution center. For a guy who had just loaned us money, he seemed strangely detached. He never did make the drive." He had other plans for Pet Quarters. Just not the ones Dempsey had imagined...
BRIAN SPIWAK Dresher, Pa...
Right now there is a federal trial under way in Dover, Pa., over a school policy requiring teachers to tell students about "intelligent design" before teaching evolution. The central idea of intelligent design is that nature is the way it is because God wants it to be that way. This is not an assertion that can be tested in a scientific way, but studied in the right context, it is an interesting notion. As a theological idea, intelligent design is exciting. Listen: If nature is the way it is because God wants it to be that way, then, by looking...