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...exceptionalism, and we are to be a shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and that we are unapologetic here.” This may not matter almost 400 years after the fact, but Governor and founding Bay Stater John Winthrop might have had a case in intellectual property court here. Moreover, Palin’s mega-sentence is generally riddled with contradiction. Winthrop’s city on a hill, at least from the abstraction of the Arbella, wasn’t a place for maverickly disdain...
Radliffe gives new meaning to the wisdom of the Beach Boys. With her skill on the river, golden-stater and sophomore Rebekah Kharrazi is making the Black and White wish they all could be California girls.A native of Alameda, Kharrazi was a key contributor to the success of the women’s varsity lightweights a sesaon ago, as the varsity eight took home a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and grabbed a bronze at IRas in 2006.And she did it in just one year.Starting off her freshman season stroking for the varsity eight, Kharrazi rowed in the lead position...
...Mackinnon, who thought she might have been the “token activist” of the group, was relieved that she was not seated next to Trager—seating a notorious activist next to a notorious conservative would have been a little too sadistic, she thought. Red Stater Dell didn’t mind when Menendez, Mackinnon and a host of leftist FM editors started talking about who had cried the hardest after election...
...sign of how far the culture war has gone that almost no one condemns both movies. If you're a Fundamentalist red-stater, Gibson is a hero. If you're a leftist blue-stater, Moore is, in the words of the New York Times, "a credit to the Republic." The truth is that both movies are different but equally potent forms of cultural toxin--poisonous to debate, to reason and to civility. And the antidote is in shorter and shorter supply...
...result, the fatality rate for auto accidents is one of the state's highest." A Connecticut reader declared, "Life has changed for those living in the shadow of casinos--and not for the better. We have more traffic, more crime and higher drunk-driving rates." Said a fellow Nutmeg Stater: "We cannot vote in tribal elections or even attend tribal meetings, yet decisions made at them alter the entire region. A gambling economy has been forced upon...