Word: playground
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Klein wrote that "No one really knows which President Bush will show up on Jan. 20 to begin his second term." Some do--it will be the same arrogant, self-impressed zealot of the past four years. But playground bullies eventually get their just deserts, and now it's going to be Bush's turn. He has alienated virtually all our allies and enraged fully half of the voters. Who is on his side? Radical conservatives and Evangelicals--not a lot of company when most of the world is against you. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seat belt...
...have gotten used to homelessness, but that doesn’t mean that Cambridge doesn’t still have a serious homeless problem. We need look no further than Cambridge Common playground, where outraged parents and pre-school teachers have recently discovered hypodermic needles, human waste and condoms, thought to be discarded by homeless individuals. Unlike other municipalities, Cambridge allows the belongings of the homeless to remain unattended in public parks for two days before forced removal—a well-intentioned policy with dismal results. Advocates for the homeless have offered a reasonable, compassionate solution that should...
...Klein wrote that "No one really knows which President Bush will show up on Jan. 20 to begin his second term." Some do. It will be the same arrogant, self-impressed zealot of the past four years. But playground bullies eventually get their just deserts, and now it's going to be Bush's turn. He has alienated virtually all our allies and enraged fully half of the voters. Who is on his side? Radical conservatives and misguided Evangelicals-not a lot of company when most of the world is against you. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seat belt...
...interwar period.” We’re not sure what is more appalling about this contention—the unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas and coddled its greatest villains...
...concern is to keep the playground safe and find an alternative solution for drug users and homeless people,” she said...