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...depressed me more than all the other horrible things that have recently occurred. Mandela feels that he represents justice and truth and thus can say and perhaps do anything he wants. But the threat to world peace lies in the self-righteous mentality of certain people who try to sum up all of the problems in the world and focus the blame on one object. They are judging an entire people by the actions of a few. Osama bin Laden thinks he represents God, points a finger at Americans and puts all his efforts into killing people. Are we ever...
...necessarily anti-China but desire things that Beijing deplores, such as more democracy in Hong Kong and even on the mainland. Given the arcane way Legco votes are tallied, the democrats are dwarfed by Tung's allies; and in the past, just about every major issue became a zero-sum game that Tung's side simply had to win in order to maintain China's confidence...
...Sum for which a West Virginia woman tried to sell her son so that she could buy Oxy-Contin, an addictive painkiller...
Meanwhile, says Okhotin, officials continued to angle for payoffs. A defense lawyer recommended by the prosecutor in early April made yet another overt appeal for a bribe—this time for $15,000, a sum which the lawyer soon reduced to $10,000—in exchange for a dismissed case or reduced penalties, he says...
MAGIC SQUARES Franklin enjoyed creating "arithmetical curiosities" in which lines have the same sum vertically, horizontally and when "bent" (in this case...