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Jerome Clifford's creative death scene in the opening chapter seems tantamount to Grisham confessing that nothing more can be written about the tainted attorneys of "The Firm" and the crime network they represented; indeed, the author labors nearly 564 pages convincing us he is not simply writing another legal thriller. Instead of the brilliant young lawyer, Mitch McDeer (played by Tom Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader...
Such a step would be tantamount to stripping Kach members of their fundamental rights as Jews. Clearly, the Israeli people do not tolerate extremism and terrorism, and are willing to compromise even the principles of terrorists like Goldstein from their midst...
Speaker 2: (Character assassination and argument assault) "Speaker 1 is a conservative pig. We need public schools to educate our children. An educated populace is tantamount to national strength and success...
...copy of Catherine A. MacKinnon's Only Words, an anti-pornography text which argues that in the case of sex acts, "To say it is to do it and to do it is to say it," In other words, looking at pictures and reading about violent sex acts are tantamount to actually committing the crime of rape. And MacKinnon now believes she has been raped...
...Katie Roiphe's date rape polemic, The Morning After, she pulls that typical trick of grouping all of her opponents together. She assumes that every feminist on every campus in the world thinks like Catharine MacKinnon, who believes that all social contact between men and women is tantamount to rape. Roiphe's arguments sound reasonable, but only if you really are speaking against a world of Catharine MacKinnons...