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...very specific comical image in mind.I love Washington, and I love to laugh, but I have come to realize that laughing at Washington and its embarrassments is a means of deflecting self-criticism and discomfort. Pride in one’s hometown need not be pride in its screw...
...sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign crude supplier - providing the U.S. with almost 15% of its oil imports - each turn of his nationalization screw tends to provoke outsized alarm...
...exhibit low levels of teen pathologies-but so what? Many teens are also starving in these places. I'm sure they don't have time to be delinquent. A defining feature of modern society is that we don't need our young to work, so of course they will screw up more...
...this be good news for the mythic, native (and rather dim) kings of the American plains? And now that we have revived bison as a species, can we figure a way not to screw it up again--to manage and slaughter them sanely and humanely...
...social anthropology concentrator dreams of beginning a career in public relations. Any chance she’ll tire of her italian cuisine ways and “pass the pizza box” along to a new Harvard hopeful? “Perhaps,” she says. So screw Merrill Lynch; hit up Merrily McGugan instead...