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...People [NAACP] has rightly decided to continue its economic boycott of the state. Ironically, when contrasted with the "flexibility" of the state's lawmakers (both sides have altered their original stances in order to support the compromise), the NAACP ends up looking like a bunch knee-jerk liberals too stubborn to change their minds. Ironically, the fact that the NAACP is the only organization with sufficient moral backbone to remain consistent might work against it in the media spotlight. The American public must remember that a sign that in the past years has been consistently used to denigrate the progress...
There are moments in O'Brien's tale when a sensible, peaceful resolution of the dispute between Brennan and Bugler seems possible. The antagonists are stubborn rather than malevolent, and when their lawyers begin exchanging letters and scheduling court appearances, the whole dispute looks ready to subside into protracted legal wrangling...
Bush's high pique over polls comes across as pique over people's not agreeing with him. He proudly says he's "stubborn," as if it's an unalloyed virtue. He wants it known he's not managed, telling the Times, "I can't tell you all the times when I say I'm not going to give this speech...They're changed. Trust me." Wouldn't he have been better off letting words be put in his mouth on David Letterman's Late Show than blundering into an unsavory riff about his host's open-heart surgery? His quick...
...lingo from appearing in the official statements of the French civil service, replacing the words with critically scrutinized, if completely unclear, French counterparts. Jeune pousse (French for "young plant") hardly conjures images of e-commerce start-ups--except, perhaps, amazon.com. The words are en francais and for the chronically stubborn-- that is all that matters...
...This is an age of moral confusion. We love to talk about law; we hate morality talk. But we will snap out of this dive, as we have snapped out of others before. Among our characteristic American obsessions, two have been prominent since 1776--our technological inventiveness and our stubborn desire to know and do what is right...