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...There’s nothing wrong with picking up good examples someone else has used,” Professor of English Gordon Teskey wrote in an e-mail. “Should the writer painstakingly seek out different examples? Would these examples be better? As a writer, I would not want to be credited by someone just for my examples. I’d rather they just took the examples...
...TIME.com: There is a lot of speculation in Washington that James Baker's Iraq Study Group will recommend that the Bush Administration talk with Tehran to seek a common approach to stabilizing Iraq. How could Iran help...
...little more guile out of the grizzled 18-year veteran. Yet the blatant use of pine tar serves to show just how widespread the use of illegal substances is among pitchers. After playing my first full-season of pro baseball, I have come to understand that players will undoubtedly seek out any advantage possible, legal or otherwise. Pitchers’ use of suntan lotion (the sport kind, so that it doesn’t accidentally irritate the eyes), shaving cream and even the trainer’s sticky pre-wrap spray is a daily practice. In minor league baseball...
Historian Howard Zinn told a Harvard Square crowd last night that members of the Bush administration should seek out support groups to conquer their compulsion for combat. “I’ve been thinking we should have a group called ‘Imperialists Anonymous,’ and they would get up and confess to their addiction to war and militarism,” Zinn told an approving audience at the First Church in Cambridge, across the Mass Ave. from Harvard Yard. And repentant Bush administration officials aren’t the only ones who should...
People are rightfully reluctant to take political cues from the motley group of college dropouts and well-intentioned pseudo-intellectuals that set opinion in Hollywood. Streisand should rest on her laurels as one of the most overrated vocalists of all time and not seek further accolades for political involvement and social awareness...