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...score: 19 Zimkowitzes in two columns of agate type. Nineteen, not 18: Yes. One family member had "batted for Zimkowitz in the ninth." There are also hints of Seuss creatures to come, like a two-legged elephant, with shoes. The chimerist in Ted responded to the elephant paradox: a creature that was both goofy-looking and gravely dignified...
...converting doubt into swing votes will require that the Democrats resolve a fundamental paradox. If Bush is a lying liar, as most of the country has already heard, then who was the gutsy leader who emerged in the aftermath of 9/11? How can Bush voters reconcile their adoration then—when his gravitas inspired comparisons to Churchill during World War II and the Kennedys during the Cuban Missile Crisis—with his recklessness since...
...This paradox has resulted because of affirmative action, Gates says...
Thoughts: Kauble sees Johnson as an intriguing paradox. “She’d probably be a really fun date. She seems really cultured. She’d probably want to go to the club, based...
Easterbrook is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book The Progress Paradox (Random House; 376 pages...