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...brother George W.'s job isn't easy either. But he does have one advantage Jeb would love: He doesn't have to budge on taxes. This month the President told Democrats they would freeze his tax cuts "not over my dead body," (we'll just ignore that creative syntax). But last month Jeb had to delay $128 million dollars in tax relief. Both Florida and the nation are facing tough economic times and shrinking tax revenues. But while state governments have to balance their books, the feds can get away with deficit spending, at least for a while...
...intelligence of editors Spiegelman and Mouly you can't be too old to appreciate "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids." The question is how young is too young? While some of the material will be over the heads of pre-literate children, comix have a language and syntax of images that can be absorbed at a very young age. You couldn't choose a better kind of "My-First-Comix" than this...
...press conference he was calm, and knew better than to promise too much. He assured Americans of ultimate victory over terrorism even as he acknowledged that there are limits to the government's ability to prevent every heinous act. If he occasionally made side trips through his syntax, he also showed a level of introspection and analysis that surprised even his close aides. Instead of offering platitudes drawn from talking points, he ruminated on the generational experience of war and bluntly warned Americans not to take out their anger by picking on "someone who doesn't look like...
...does not shy away from some of antiquity’s most challenging verse to translate. Horace’s odes are a case in point. Ferry performed several in his reading; they take full advantage of the great freedom of word order that Latin’s inflectional syntax allows, and form is often inextricably linked to meaning. Nietszche noted that the arrangements of words in the odes resemble the tesserae of a mosaic—a poetic translator’s nightmare...
...rock, with occasional worldly flair (such as the engaging Andean flutes on the song Whenever, Wherever). "I knew I could write songs in English," says Shakira. "I just had to get over the fear." In general, she says she finds English to be less accommodating than Espanol. "Spanish syntax is more flexible--I can put a verb before a noun any time I need to. English is more rigid," she says. There is an aspect of her new songwriting language that she finds useful: "The great thing about composing in English is that with three words you can make...