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...must be decoded. The man who once said he had "never broken the laws of my country" when answering questions about his marijuana inhaling (he was at Oxford at the time), and who claimed to have "caused pain in my marriage" to avoid having to use the singular or plural when discussing his love affairs, now faces an audience no longer naive about presidential double-talk. Thus when Clinton sat down with Jim Lehrer on Wednesday afternoon and repeated, in heavily lawyered cadences, that "I didn't ask anybody not to tell the truth," reporters pounced...
...stating that signed pieces are the opinions of the authors alone. Despite this, I agree with Kaufman's premise that all on the masthead bear some responsibility for being associated with a publication that would allow a writer to speak for all of them by using the first person plural...
...issue of blacks, Buchanan asserted in 1972 that "the ship of integration is going down. It's not our ship." By speaking in the first-person plural, Buchanan is exhibiting a detachment from black citizens. The cause, one for which the fight continues, is not his. This is a frightening fact--that the push for racial integration is not a goal of a political leader. That this unconstitutional mindframe can appeal to a portion of the populace bears testimony to the erosion of America's social values. Where are the counter-attacks to his monstrous assertions...
...mentioned off-hand they weren'trespectful of her privacy, and they hadn't beenconsiderate," said the sophomore who knew Ho. "Shesaid her roommates played music too loud and wereinconsiderate." The sophomore added that Horeferred to her roommates in the plural form,although Ho's suite was only a double...
...frazzled stewardesses rushed to calm the masses. With Elvis (plural) finally reseated, they gladly prepared the plane for landing in Boston. From here, the Elvises apparently continued on to Memphis for a further display of this cross-cultural convergence...