Word: cannot
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...Yeah, doesn't that drive you crazy? I go through this all the time with set designers and costume designers and set dressers. I say, you cannot give them this! This is a bloody palace! You're not going to able to afford this on so and so's salary, you wouldn't have accessories like this. I think everything on a set, and every costume, has to make a statement. Even if it's a prop, if it's this vase of flowers. I like flowers. Some men don't. I do. I think that makes a statement about...
...Although we can admire [the protesters] for their tenacity and constancy, we cannot admire them for their wisdom or the accuracy of their judgements," he said...
...citizens the equal protection of the laws. This guarantee must be upheld, especially when so basic a civic capacity as defending one's country is at stake. Discrimination on the basis of lifestyle is a clear-cut violation of individual dignity and self-determination, and as such cannot be countenanced. Conservatives take issue with such claims, objecting usually on the basis of unit cohesion. Rights, so the reasoning goes, are meaningful only insofar as a state can stay independent enough to secure them. Fighting power is the overriding imperative. Openly gay soldiers might impair the unit cohesion integral...
...point is efficiency is not and cannot be the only goal of the American army. We do not shoot soldiers deserting on the battlefield, and we most certainly do not go after their families. An imperfect record notwithstanding, we respect human rights. And we attach value to the individual life. Although we might have a better military if we lost our national conscience, we properly insist that fighting power take a backseat to certain fundamental, defining values of our country...
...former Knick forward who threw his share of elbows against the Celtics in the '70s, but it also highlighted the biggest problem with negative campaigning: the guy who fights back is the one who gets called for the foul. It is a rhetorical and psychological truth that you cannot be the one to praise your own achievements. Just as true, alas, is the fact that you cannot be the one to protest and/or react to the harm done to you. It happens in basketball all the time--a player puts up with shoves, elbows and the occasional stranglehold until...