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...side stand the Trumans and Deweys of the world, with their “civil rights” and Negro athletes in hand ready to impose on anyone, anywhere. Shall we allow this? If Base-ball goes, it will not be long before football, basketball and golf succumb as well. Ice hockey, I am told, is safe for at least another hundred years...
...other side was the Empathetic Soft Left, represented by me and my son. In contrast to the rapidly acquired intellectual dominance of the Washington Consensus, the Empathetic Left held out through a long, bitterly fought match, ultimately, as in the real world of the nineties, to succumb to the sharper positioning, more aggressive volleys and sheer determination of the Washington Consensus. I think we lost that in five, if you want to get right down...
...would have been very easy to give in to what they were doing, but we didn’t succumb to their thuggery,” Masterson said...
...Don’t succumb to cynicism, Reich had told the college students jammed into Science Center A. But cynicism, especially where politics is concerned, is the bulwark of our generation. What else could protect us from the political scandals of our youth—from the dimly-recalled Iran-Contra affair, from Bill Clinton’s indiscretions, from the muddle of the 2000 presidential election? I have been a cynic since the onset of adolescence—have been proud of my cynicism, have recognized it for the sturdy rampart it is, have smiled wryly as it, undented...
...team - believed to be the only one of its kind in Europe - has caused controversy in Spain. Might a healthy young person given the sentence of Alzheimer's commit suicide? What if an employer or an insurance company got hold of the information that a person was certain to succumb in mid-life? Molinuevo says the program is super-cautious when it comes to ethics. One indication is that he will say very little concerning the "about 20" people - ages ranging from 20 to 45 - who have now received the news that they are genetically predisposed to the disease. Another...