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...Administration accused Kerasiotes of "intentionally withholding knowledge" of budget overruns and breaching the integrity of the federal/state highway development partnership. In addition to recommending that more financial accountability rest at the federal level, the report designated the turnpike authority and the Massachusetts Highway Department as "high-risk" agencies, a slap in the face to a governor who routinely touts his fiscal prudence...
...peculiar tenet of a single Denomination--rather, it is common to nearly all orthodox western religions, ranging from Missouri Synod Lutheranism to Shi'ite and Sunni Islam, and from Russian Orthodoxy to Orthodox Judaism. In suggesting that subsidizing abortion is morally unimportant, The Crimson is effectively offering a slap in the face to the entire western religious tradition...
When I was in fourth grade, students regularly had their prized "slap bracelets" taken away from them in the middle of class...
...glad that my fourth grade teacher wanted me to be safe. I'm glad that the College wants to protect me as well. But we're not little kids anymore. Maybe back in fourth grade I couldn't properly debate the hazards of slap bracelets and teachers were justified in confiscating them for the students' own good. But we're supposed to be adults now in the eyes of the University. We should be able to enter into an intelligent discussion of the fire safety issue...
Fact: no one will play with our toys. Our children will scorn slap bracelets and turn their noses up at Trapper Keepers. Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony dolls will be viewed with condescension, Transformers and He-Man action figures with contempt. Gameboys will line our nation's landfills, and not near the top of the heap. No supplies will be swapped, no wagons will be caulked and no snake bites will be healed on "The Oregon Trail...