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...Words muck up deals, create divisions, draw battle lines, are misunderstood. When you are a legislator, silence is your friend. The unspoken word never has to be taken back. (And dust-bowl Kansas wasn't exactly a place for airy chat; you grew up in the last age of yup and nope. "Lost the farm." "Bad." "Still tryin'." "Good.") Now it's all different. When you run for President, words are your friend, your only friend. You must "martial them to fight for you,'' in Margaret Thatcher's phrase. This will be a psychic shift, and it won't happen...
After all, if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Here, in fact, lies the solution to our problems. Instead of taking guns away from our nation's children, we should arm them. Yup, no big bad gangster is come after little Billy with a gun if he knows the tyke is sporting his own firepower. Mandatory handgun training should be added to our elementary schools' curricula. Peace through superior firepower. It won the cold war, you know...
...GOEL: Yup, you're a raving lunatic. Well, it's about time to sign off, folks. We should let you get back to your news so you get your daily dose of information...
...course, this gives a somewhat splintered view of our fair university. Yup. There's a reason that the cover of last year's Commencement tabloid in The Crimson had a shattered Harvard seal on the cover...
...country's auto industry warned that if any trade sanctions are imposed, Japan will make it even harder for U.S. companies struggling to make inroads into the tough Japanese market. Meanwhile, in July the U.S. merchandise trade deficit surged to its second highest level in history: $11 billion. Yup, Japan accounted for the largest slice of that deficit...