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...down child pornography. In 2002, Foley was furious when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to outlaw computer-generated animations--not actual video--that depict underage characters having sex. "The high court sided with pedophiles over children," Foley blustered. Or it sided with, you know, the First Amendment. Tomato, tomahto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Foley's Real Sin Was ...: Breaking America's Favorite Taboo | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

Some say tomayto and some say tomahto, but soon members of both camps will be wondering where all the round, red fruits went...

Author: By Lorraine E. Hammer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yes, We Have No Tomatoes | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...Tomayto, Tomahto, Potayto, Pahtato

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Shopping Around | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

Hollywood has contributed a touch of the ludicrous by putting Humphrey Bogart under a homburg and trying to palm him off as a scion of the rich. Bogart is an obvious ringer in the role; you can almost see him wince as he talks about cans of "tomahto" juice...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: Sabrina | 10/7/1954 | See Source »

...hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hot Blueblood | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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