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Admittedly, the op-ed succeeded at one thing: application of stereotypes. The penultimate paragraph invites readers to, “[w]atch how quickly [women] can figure out that marked-down price of any clothing item during a sale.” Comments on this jewel are hardly necessary...
...least. The controversy stems from a single paragraph in Chapter 10 of the report's second section, which claimed that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding faster than in any other part of the world, and that "if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 or perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at its current rate." Glaciologists have been doubtful of that 2035 date since the report came out. Although they are melting, there are tens of thousands of Himalayan glaciers, and it's hard to imagine them all disappearing...
...good news, sources in Seoul say, is that the South Korean government and the Obama Administration are "not only on the same page, but on the same paragraph" when it comes to dealing with the North, as one adviser to President Lee Myung Bak put it recently. One senior diplomat adds that his "gut instinct" is that the North will in fact return relatively soon to the nuclear bargaining table. But even if that happens, Seoul concurs with Bosworth's assessment, on returning from Pyongyang last month, that the sequencing of reciprocal steps by the two sides is likely...
Tenenbaum wrote a letter to the RIAA in November 2005 offering to settle the case by paying $500 and removing the files in question from his computer. The letter was redacted when presented as evidence, leaving only the paragraph in which Tenenbaum wrote that he would delete the files. Nesson asserted that this redacted letter gives jurors the impression that Tenenbaum unconditionally agreed to remove the files from his computer, when in reality he only promised to remove the files as part of the $500 settlement...
...wept uncontrollably at Mr. Serwer's lament about the U.S.'s dismal decade. The hopeful last paragraph raised my spirits, however, knowing that with so many trump cards on its side, the home of the brave and the land of the free will rise again to plunder the planet for generations to come. Robert Leckie Mount Helena, Australia...