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Principled objection to capital punishment is a legitimate political position that is shared by significant portion of this country's electorate. Supporting the murderer of a police officer is a lot harder for Middle America to swallow. Death penalty opponents do themselves no favors by making Jamal their poster child. Then again, it's hard to see how anyone benefits from their association with Jamal, but it is easiest to understand why the radical left can't help itself...
...took Intel 24 years to reach $50 billion in market cap, while it took Yahoo less than two years. For some, even Intel's price seems hard to swallow, given the relative maturity of its business and its growth prospects. But increasingly, even institutional investors are flocking to stocks like Yahoo as the performance of the Net stocks has put less aggressive investments to shame...
...drop a stubborn last 10 pounds. For them, the answer lies not in the medicine chest, but in the gym. "The best way to lose weight is to eat a low fat, balanced diet and exercise," Gorman reminds us. And for many that reality is a bitter pill to swallow...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Against BYU, there were some close matches," Friedman said. "It was a tough one to swallow...