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I have a vagina. I don’t ask it what it wants to wear or what its name is or what it wants to eat for breakfast. Asking a vagina to talk is a cute rhetorical device to start a discussion. But that is all it is. It...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Our Vaginas, Not Ourselves | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

Another rhetorical device that gets under my skin—“whopping.” I always know some outrage against the more affluent among us will follow. As in “the top 50% [of all wage earners] pay a whopping 96.09% of all income taxes...

Author: By Andree Pages, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rich Must Pay More To Defend Their Assets | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

Yet even as the Pentagon called up divisions and shipped off battle groups, the Administration put the brakes on its rhetorical march. State Department officials warned reporters not to "assume any timetable" for a strike. Pentagon officers repeated that the President has not decided whether to launch an attack and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This War Be Avoided? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Although such revelations, if true, might seem innocuous to a casual observer, they are heretical to Sugihara's staunchest defenders and have triggered a ferocious legal and rhetorical response. In August, a libel suit for some $83,000 was filed in Tokyo against Levine's Japanese publisher, claiming that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Courage | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

According to Goldstein, Ma’s aura of “quiet confidence” contrasts with that of Lee, who has been “very loud, very fiery, very rhetorical.”

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alums Vie for Top Post in Taiwan's Capital City | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

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