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Dartmouth Big Green Projected Rank: #1 Head coach: John Lyons 1995 Ivy Record...
...Even rank-and-file Reformers are snubbing Perot. Some think his decision to accept nearly $30 million in taxpayers' money is a raid on the very Treasury he complains is already empty. Others worry that he is attracting types like left-fringe politico Lenora Fulani. Officials of New York's Independence Party are threatening to drop Perot from their ticket because of what they see as massive irregularities in the nomination process. Nearly a third of their 38,000 members didn't receive ballots as promised, while nonmembers got ballots simply by phoning Reform headquarters and asking for them...
...form of a supercilious ass who wants to disintegrate Earth with his "Iludium pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator" because Earth obstructs his view of Venus. Earthkind's hero, Bugs Bunny, snuffs out Marvin the Martian's modulator fuse and saves the world, a feat that, theologians agree, must rank slightly ahead of Daffy Duck's space exploration in quest of "Aludium Phosdex, the shaving-cream atom...
...time being, marriage is defined as the union 1) of two people 2) of the opposite sex. Gay-marriage advocates claim that restriction No. 2 is discriminatory, a product of mere habit or tradition or, worse, prejudice. But what about restriction No. 1? If it is blind tradition or rank prejudice to insist that those who marry be of the opposite sex, is it not blind tradition or rank prejudice to insist that those who marry be just...
This is traditionally called the polygamy challenge, but polygamy--one man marrying more than one woman--is the wrong way to pose the question. Polygamy, with its rank inequality and female subservience, is too easy a target. It invites exploitation of and degrading competition among wives, with often baleful social and familial consequences. (For those in doubt on this question, see Genesis: 26-35 on Joseph and his multimothered brothers...