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...provided to FM. “It is a problem of law or morality, and of liability as property-owners. Your problem is that in several clubs dangerously large amounts of uncontrolled drinking takes place. Controls on who is admitted to the functions where this occurs are very weak. Both our students and others are endangered...
...passed a few Mormon missionaries on the street today. I could see that they knew I was on the rebound, that I’m weak, I’m ripe. It’s going to be hard, John, it’s going to be hard...
Throughout his 2004 campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...
...many smart and educated people working for him; but these people, like much of Blue America and those of us at Harvard, know more about Eastern religions and the political parties of Germany than they do about mega churches and Dale Earndhart. Bush was able to win despite the weak economy and the situation in Iraq because he knew that in the end it wasn’t celebrities or Europeans that mattered in presidential elections; it’s the guys who drive pick-up trucks, have WWJD tattooed on their biceps and listen to Toby Keith...
...they stepped up to sign the constitution. The constitutional treaty is a lengthy compilation of all previous EU agreements, meant to clarify the division of competences as well as afford the EU new powers, and is widely considered the ultimate political compromise. Only a relatively weak document could make all states content, and its final form required over a year of negotiations...