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...basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part of a 10-day-long ritual slaughter of 4.5 million clay pigeons. The only thing thicker than the gunpowder that laced the air was the cynicism directed toward both Clinton and Congress. Said Bob Walden, 52, a retired supervisor: "It's not that I've lost faith in our nation's principles. It's just that I've lost all faith in our leaders...
...sloppiness that she criticizes in other feminists. She plays fast and loose with anonymous sources and uses ellipses in mid-quote. She goes to great lengths to establish that the "rule of thumb," which in the 19th century allowed a man to beat his wife with a rod no thicker than that finger, is a recent "feminist fiction." Yet her favorite feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spoke out passionately against the right of a man to carry out this violence in a speech that Sommers quotes approvingly...
...Thicker Than Blood...
...decorations and savory delights (not to mention my family's card-reading ritual). And last year, while many of my fellow editors lamented over their recent romantic foibles or reminisced about their fourth-grade kisses behind the oak tree, I explained how blood (the color of valentines) is thicker than water...
...these things go.) Almost all the best noisy bands still around (Frances Gumm, for example, or Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records, and a total contrast to the painfully thin sound Honor Role cultivate. The bass and drums, though, come straight from the Honor Role fakebook--together, the parts of the rhythm section generally seem...