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Other defenders of the rally criticize my mode of expression. How dare I tell jokes at such a serious event" First, as I have made clear already, the event should not be taken seriously. It is scarcely imaginable that had I not offered my 30 seconds of humor one fewer act of violence against women would have occurred...
...bombs would be O.K.? The big danger is that having dodged one deadline after another for opening its nuclear facilities to inspection, Kim's regime will conclude that it can keep delaying until it is able to announce that it has a nuclear arsenal and to dare the world to do anything about...
While few would dare to take their chances a second time, Tufts University and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) have put on their helmets and crossed their fingers in preparation for tomorrow's Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT...
...peyote. For what was once a seductive pleasure is now an endangered cult, subject to demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful habit?" or just...
This was risky territory for a public figure: if pride is bad, then one doesn't dare seem proud of being good. Both Bill and Hillary came to Washington promising an end to politics as usual, a rebirth of responsibility, a Politics of Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model...