Word: remarkable
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...While Klein is right that the Columbia audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's good run in recent weeks: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses to the world community. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations...
...While Klein is right that the columbia audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's recent good run: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly...
...Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...
...woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about “well-behaved women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared in “American Quarterly,” while she was still in graduate school. The article argued that the emphasis on written documents in traditional...
...Harvard coach Tim Murphy stood with a more menacing look than I’d ever seen on his face, and a remark he made about wanting to “see the officials” was heard as a small crowd began to form around the Crimson football team. The players stood in a small group, fresh off their crushing 31-28 last second loss at Holy Cross. They were dejected, downtrodden. They, like Murphy, were angry...