Word: phrased
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Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...
...behind both the Palestinians and the Israelis at the Wye River accord--his frail hand the crucial fourth at the signing table--showed a resolve to not let past mistakes prevent future triumph. "Our king," Clinton called him at a prayer breakfast Thursday, which must always seem a strange phrase out an American president's mouth. Yet Clinton was right that he was our king: In the past decade, Hussein has been essential to the processes of peace and development by engaging in the Middle East compromise rituals of threats, compliments, secrets and strongly brewed coffee. His ability to show...
...always existed on the perimeters) will become a mainstream expectation. Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council may run for President. Dan Quayle has already announced that a main plank of his presidential platform will be the ever-popular--and incredibly vague--"family values." When he used that phrase in reference to "Murphy Brown" in 1992, many of us recoiled at the thought of such an issue taking center stage in our political debate. Now, he's returning to it in triumph. Though I don't mean to suggest for a minute that either one of these conservative members...
...notes, "but not bad manners." Yet whatever Clinton says, and whatever Congress does, neither side can take much credit for the luminous State of this Union, since they have spent the year in a locker room, arguing about sex. And in the year in which the phrase divided government came to refer to a government divided from its people, says Brownback, that "is the biggest disconnect...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...