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...fingers and toes with all the accuracy their six-year-old minds can muster. "Nineteen," they conclude. Then the clearly ancient guest asks, "Guess how old I am." Britty can't resist the chance to tease: "900,000!" she shrieks. The sisters dissolve into giggles. They reach up and slap a celebratory high five...
...Harvard has treated [ROTC students] as if they were lepers. It's a slap in the face of every undergraduate who still values honor, duty and country," said John Applebaum...
Today when you slap your child and cause pain, it's child abuse! The Department of Social Services has been given too much authority. I do not deny that there is a need for this organization. Children have a right to be protected when they have been sexually or physically abused. Children are taught about abuse in the schools. A small child of four, five or six is not likely to lie about being abused and immediate action should be taken to remove the child from the dangerous situation. However, older children know that they can manipulate the system...
...trades identities and gender roles as well. Cory serenades Mike with such sweet compliments that his eventual brutality comes as a shame, but also as a relief; if she had shut up and calmed down earlier, Mike wouldn't have had to take control of the situtation, slap her around and rape her. (This remark is not politically correct and neither is the tone of the play.) After the violation occurs, Cory does the only thing an irresponsible youth is conditioned to do: overdose. Only, like a total fool, she swallows a bottle of Prozac...
...inclusive Republican Party. "It is not enough simply to be against," he said. Near the end of his speech, the multimillionaire publisher offered Dole a perfunctory and lukewarm endorsement. TIME's John F. Dickerson, who has been following Forbes' campaign, observes: "Not giving an endorsement would have been a slap in the face to Dole. But as of yesterday morning, his press secretary was savaging Dole." In ending his political campaign, Forbes said he would continue campaigning for the principles he has talked about: reducing government, an inclusive G.O.P. and, chiefly, the flat tax. He will probably do that, Dickerson...