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Margaret Thatcher once confidently predicted that her political reign would "go on and on." Now chafing in forced retirement, the former British Prime Minister apparently intends to apply that philosophy to the writing of her memoirs. Thatcher is talking about dividing her life story into three or four volumes, more than potential U.S. publishers hope to see -- or sell. Perhaps the Iron Lady wishes to continue emulating her idol Winston Churchill, who wrote more than two dozen books during his lifetime...
...BEHOLD, it was in the last year of the reign of King Derek when the people of Israel went astray. They followed false political paths and forsook their convenant with the God of Abraham. And lo, there arose in the land two prophets, and they were righteous men. They cried out unto the people of Israel, 'Repent! Betray not the Law and the teachings of your fathers!' And their names were called Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 and E. Adam Webb...
...First Amendment absolutist position should not necessarily reign supreme in this issue, Kilson said. "Occasionally you have to rethink the boundaries between free speech and speech that harms and hurts. When the Nazis march in Skokie, Ill., before hundreds of Jews whose relatives died in the Holocaust--that's no longer speech, in my view. That's violence...
...sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead of "freshperson," "Indian" instead of "Native American" or, may the Goddess forgive them, "disabled" instead of "differently abled...
...Saddam Hussein will still be in power, oil prices will still be subject to the will of OPEC, and that alleged principle of not rewarding aggression--well, we all know how consistently it will be upheld in the future. My argument, however, is that an Iraq freed from the reign of Saddam Hussein can, if not totally justify our actions, at least salvage some of our principles and maybe even allow a sense of pride...