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...powerful and populous Senate (think the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) would let consuls (think Core Committee) elect a dictator (think successful administrator) with a specific agenda (think Core reform) and a rigid timetable. Paradoxically, in order to preserve the Republic’s freedom, the republican principles of plural collegiality and responsibility needed to be abandoned. By most accounts, the system succeeded in saving the Republic from external invaders and internal rebellions alike. According to legend, Cincinnatus was plowing his field when called to dictatorship, an activity that he blissfully resumed after having saved the Republic. In view...
...administration may have to move beyond strongly worded missives. In the meantime, someone has to figure this out: Is it Minuteman or Minutemen? (Or, perhaps, Two-Pump Chump?) The groups's official name is the Minuteman Project, singular, but their troops are collectively known as the Minutemen, plural. The Spec has used both, with no clear rhyme or reason, and it's time to standardize for the sake of style mavens everywhere...
...environment, health care and education; and third ... well, his third point turned out to be about the "epic struggle" of his presidency. For the rest of Bill's 20-minute speech, his wife merited an individual mention only here and there. Everything else was framed in the first-person-plural we. Not that the crowd seemed to mind, judging from the deafening applause...
...from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be” are “we is,” “you all is,” and “they is,” respectively. As my mother whispered, “Now that is a real...
...bullfighting fraternity cares. Like the NBA in the U.S, bullfighting is a world of its own, in which racial and ethnic barriers dissolve in the face of talent. Once a near sacred practice in the Catholic, ethnically homogenous world of Old Spain, bullfighting is still revered in today's plural society. Savalli could be a poster boy for that pluralism, for rather than challenge Spain's grand bullfighting traditions, he seems to immerse himself in them. Savalli was 7 years old and "afraid of even cows then," as he admits, when he met his destiny, attending an encierro (running...