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...Create your own army. Jack London is impossible to understand without being familiar with Marxism. "To Build a Fire": What drives the prospector to his death? "Money, Mr. Mayo. It's all money. Greed!" Fahrenheit 451: "Write a three-paragraph essay on why technology is out of control and needs to be reined in by strong, direct government action." The O.J. Trail: "Would this have happened in Massachusetts?" "No, Mr. Mayo!" Excellent, said Mr. Burns...
Likewise, there was no need to memorialize Richard Nixon. Perhaps you have already made the analogy. Let me stress the similarities of circumstance between the evils of the two "leaders" by reprinting the previous paragraph...
...final point is a bit of an ironic one. Ms. Barenbaum spends too much of her entire piece talking about obscure theories, and forgets some fundamental rules about standard English grammar. She begins the last paragraph of her piece by arguing that Ebonics is going to create a division between those who speak it and "those who speaks, reads," and write standard English. Earlier she argues that, because of all this debate, "what is being established is binary opposition, is difference." These grammatically incorrect sentences, in an edited op-ed piece, should remind some of us that the basic question...
...decision in her favor would open the President up not to a run-of-the-mill civil lawsuit but a potentially lurid judicial voyage through a world of alleged use of state troopers to procure women, and purported "bimbo eruptions." Clinton would no doubt be questioned about contentions like paragraph 22 of Jones' complaint: that "[t]here were distinguishing characteristics in Clinton's genital area that were obvious to Jones." Even Justices reluctant to extend presidential privilege may feel that there are some questions the leader of the free world should not have to answer...
...sadly disappointed in your one-paragraph Milestone on the passing of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 25]. In the past 30 years, he changed the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., helping it to be more inclusive. Cardinal Bernardin greatly affected the life of all Chicagoans of every denomination, as shown by the nearly 100,000 people paying their respects at his wake. At one time or another he was mentioned as a possibility to be the first Pope from America. Your issue was full of military scandal, technologic equipment and even more reporting on O.J. Simpson. I feel...