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...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...
...toward male friendships than in proving anything about Lincoln's sexuality. Suggestions that Lincoln was gay have existed for years. In his 1926 biography, the poet Carl Sandburg wrote that the President and Speed possessed "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets"--a lyrical though curious phrase that seems to suggest something unmasculine...
...code-red scrutiny that now accompanies the A.F.P. and its boss was played out dramatically in March, after the Madrid commuter-train bombings. Keelty was asked during a TV interview whether a similar attack could occur in Australia. "The reality is," he replied, using a trademark phrase, "if this turns out to be Islamic extremists responsible for this bombing in Spain, it is more likely to be linked to the position that Spain and other allies took on issues such as Iraq." Prime Minister John Howard disagreed, dismissed any link between Spain and Australia, and maintained that Australia...
...Even ?The Corporation,? a fascinating lecture-epic whose main aim is to prove that the phrase business ethics is an oxymoron, uses some familiar faces: it begins with a quote from George W. Bush and ends with a call to arms by Michael Moore. ?The curse for me,? Moore says in the film, ?has been the fact that in making these documentary films, I?ve seen that they actually can impact change. So I?m just compelled to keep making them...
...guess that's called stubborn," the President says. Whenever an aide comes back to him with reports of receiving a hostile reaction to one of his policy proposals, from bureaucrats bucking intelligence reform or members of Congress squealing about his budget, Bush greets the embattled aide with the same phrase: "You must be doing something right." A Bush adviser puts it more bluntly: "He likes being hated. It lets him know he's doing the right thing...