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However, I hasten to point out one grievous error of transposition. In your third to final paragraph, you mistakenly refer to Yale’s esteemed graduate, Charles Montgomery Burns (more commonly known as C. Montgomery Burns) as “Montgomery C. Burns.” As the president of Yale’s only official student organization dedicated to his life and work, I could not let this error go uncorrected...
...Klein suggests, the pleasure of smoking is both aesthetic and metaphorical. Aesthetic: the votary aspect of lighting a cigarette. The very phrase "cigarette lighter" can refer both to the machine that provides the flame and to the person who clicks his Bic - or, if he's using matches, snicking his stick. Metaphorical: Smoking can represent passive surrender (one ingests the drug without a much greater expenditure of energy than an opium den denizen) or an active assertion of ego (exhaling smoke extends your "space," creates a cloud, a gentle miasma, a box around you). A cigarette is an undomesticated...
...want to make it entirely clear--even though I can't refer to the specifics of the allegation--that it is totally untrue and without a shred of evidence." AIDE TO PRINCE CHARLES, denying a rumor about a royal family member that the media is barred from printing but confirming that it involves the heir to the throne...
...program, though Iran is developing relevant technology and has shown a "pattern of concealment" over the past 18 years. At a meeting November 20 of the IAEA, the organization's 35-member board of governors will decide whether to declare Iran in noncompliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refer it to the U.N. for possible action, as the U.S. wants, or reprimand but continue to work with it, as the U.K., France and Germany prefer. TIME's Andrew Purvis spoke to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei at his home in Vienna. Iran's nuclear program doesn't look like...
...would, much to the dismay of many students,” Winger kids. “I was told I was a bit of a hardass...A lot of people refer to [Gen Ed 105] as a gut, but I felt differently about...