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In measured language, Ogletree expressed his concerns about the program, though he stuck more to asking rhetorical questions than making declarative statements. He urged the committee to further investigate the practice and gave committee members guidance on what issues they should look into and what questions they should ask.
How to explain the Bush administration? Or more precisely, how to explain the defining characteristic of George W. Bush's presidency - this fondness for rhetorical extravagance, this straining after greatness, this implausible invocation of only the loftiest goals and purposes?
Gilding the lily - casting the everyday and unexceptional in the most grandiose terms - has always been a weakness of boomers, who in their youth would sometimes compare Captain Marvel comic books to the Sistine Chapel or call Yoko Ono an artist. Overstatement has been George W. Bush's prime rhetorical...
The movie is about Namsoon (Ha Ji-won), a woman detective on the tail of a preternatural rogue whom she falls in a kind of love with but is destined to battle at the end. This sweet-faced sleuth both uses her cuteness and fights against it. Facing down one...
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76 “was and is romantic about all things Harvard,” his Harvard Law School (HLS) friend, Donald S. Scherer, told The Crimson last summer. But Roberts’ amorous attitude toward his alma...