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...also gave Bush a hard time when he said "each of us must love our children with all our heart and all our soul." "False Statement"! it screamed. Maybe it was objecting to the post-grammatical syntax...
...water, just so it lasts until the baby boomers are dead." Gore will "take on big drug companies to guarantee prescription drugs for seniors. Hold schools accountable for results." (Yes! Those bastards!) "Tax cuts for working families and the middle class." Note the missing verb; at this point the syntax has broken down, as the biography has wholly devolved into a laundry list of promises...
...writing a villanelle? What's a villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...
...Guzman never got academic credit for "E-mail Password Sender Trojan." But the proposal's mangled syntax--de Guzman described a program that "catched and retrieved all lose passwords that users can enjoy"--was a dead giveaway. The proposal appears to have been a blueprint for the Love Bug virus that wreaked havoc on e-mail systems around the world, from the Pentagon to the British Parliament, and caused as much as $15 billion in damage. The skinny 23-year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting...
...Tony Coehlo, campaign manager for Vice President Al Gore '69, were trying to map the mind of a typical attentive voter as decision-time approaches, that voter might suggest that he keep Gore away from a dishonesty of syntax. What? That's right, syntax. Policy positions and leadership ability are obviously crucial to our voting decisions, but how a candidate answers a question or avoids it, the words he uses when he backs away from a former position or assumes a new one, can and should be in our minds when we go to the ballot...