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...atmosphere. Phil Gramm says, 'You know what's interesting about McCain is that he has no malice.' He really doesn't. He will get mad at people in certain situations. But you know, he's served the people of this country for fifty years, he's not going to gainsay the results. He fought as hard as he could...
Scientists say it is, in fact, easy to gainsay the intelligent-design folks. Take Behe's argument about complexity, for example. "Evolution by natural selection is a brilliant answer to the riddle of complexity because it is not a theory of chance," explains Dawkins. "It is a theory of gradual, incremental change over millions of years, which starts with something very simple and works up along slow, gradual gradients to greater complexity. Not only is it a brilliant solution to the riddle of complexity; it is the only solution that has ever been proposed." To attribute nature's complexity...
...gainsay Neuharth's achievement in bringing about the first telepaper. USA Today is the cross-pollination of print journalism and television, aimed at a generation conditioned to a diet of polychromed, encapsulated news. In its quest to be different, it has redefined the traditional newspaper menu to include far more consumer information, features about trends, poll results and just plain, unadorned facts, all of it served up in easily digested prose. If USA Today has a personality, it is that of the cheerful tipster, giving the best time to buy small cars or where to write for a booklet about...
...words, once again, were gorgeous. This is a President who has uttered more stunning sentences than any since Reagan. It would be hard for even Bush's most hateful opponents to gainsay such sentiments as "America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains or that women welcome humiliation and servitude ..." And so Bush's critics have an uphill struggle. They risk sounding pinched, curmudgeonly. It is impossible to dispute the superiority of freedom over tyranny, of democracy over dictatorship...
...could gainsay Mark McGwire. Nor could we have invented him: he was that close to perfect. He assaulted the most textured record in the most apposite sport--the sport closest to the American bone and yet most in need of a rehabilitation of the spirit. McGwire built steadily toward his moment, through 11 seasons marked by astonishing accomplishment and devastating failure. He remained at once focused on his goal and joyful in its pursuit, during which he embraced his closest rival. He never bragged, never proclaimed that he was the great white hope or the straw that stirred the drink...