Word: ralph
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...Associate Professor of Radiology Ralph Weissleder and three colleagues published a report of their work in the April issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology...
With the advent of moderation has come the extinction of the true liberal. There are a few remaining specimens, Ralph Nader among them, distinguished by their self-righteous sermons and slightly communistic tendencies. There were days when having your own copy of Mao's Little Red Book was a mark of integrity, instead of a badge of shame. These bleeding-heart liberals as they are now disparagingly called, never hesitated to remind us that the most important issues were not how much money we were making or which cell phone matched our wardrobe. While often misguided and sometimes silly...
...true liberal has its counterpart in the true conservative. These fellows have not (unfortunately) gone so quietly into that good night. From Ralph Reed to Pat Buchanan, they're still out practicing their bigoted and backward politics. They still have followers and they still run for office every so often. But less and less are they explicitly shaping the Republican Party's political agenda. When (and if) Strom Thurmond dies, so too will die the old school Republican party. The future is for the George W. Bush Jrs. and Christie Todd Whitmans of America. They are the fiscal conservative, politically...
...began with an omen. On the classroom video monitors, the "phrase of the day" was not exactly Ralph Waldo Emerson. Instead, noticed a student, it was something to the effect, "You don't want to be here." Below that was the date, not spelled out April 20, as was the custom, but written 4/20 in bold type, a pulsing message easily decoded. "It's weed-smoking day," one student said, referring to the shorthand for going out and getting stoned: marijuana is supposed to contain 420 different chemicals: the Los Angeles police department's code for a drug bust...
Thirty years ago, in an essay titled "Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday," novelist Ralph Ellison posed these questions: "How many generations of Americans, white and black, wooed their wives and had the ceremonial moments of their high school and college days memorialized by Ellington's tunes? And to how many thousands has he defined what it should mean to be young and alive and American?" Today, at a time when neo-swing and the Big Band sound have become trendy, even bursting forth from commercials for the Gap and Burger King, it's worth pondering how much...