Word: touche
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...Jesus did, it was Matthew Shepard. He could have been my student, my son, your brother or friend. But after this crucifixion there is no resurrection, no redemption--only the books Matt will never read, the paintings that will hang an eternity without the light of his eyes to touch them. His teachers will never hear his voice in a seminar room...
...foundered in 1992, Monaghan returned to restructure the company and revive its fortunes. Domino's falling market share turned up again, and its worldwide sales have grown impressively--from $2.2 billion in 1993 to $3.2 billion last year. In his farewell letter to employees, Monaghan wrote--with perhaps a touch of pride--that the new owners of Domino's "are not buying a company in crisis, needing change to survive." Not at all. For years it was the flamboyant Monaghan himself who was in crisis, making his departure from Domino's only the latest in a string of soulful changes...
There's a touch of homophobia in the Wyoming legislature, state representative Mike Massie of Laramie tells you. It's a religious thing, he says. God has apparently channeled his thoughts on gays through a few good ole boys in Cheyenne...
Ross and his team make brilliant use of color technology; the blossoming of each character really does touch the emotions of an openhearted viewer. But the scheme has heavier undertones. For creamy black-and-white read white: white bread, pasty white skin, whites-only neighborhoods, the last decade of white-male culture and, yes, the white sheets of the Ku Klux Klan. For color read colored, as in "colored people" and other oppressed minorities--artists seeking free expression, women in search of the apocalyptic orgasm...
...Which may give some accounting executives cause for concern. But perhaps it?s the data entry folks who should feel most threatened by this turn of events. The monkeys were able to identify the numbers on a touch-sensitive computer screen; press one banana followed by two trees and three triangles, for example, and the almighty unseen hand delivers a special reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will...