Word: ergo
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...Ergo, the Ivy League has been reborn. This year, the League has been split into two divisions: the northern schools in the "Red Rolfe" division, the southern schools in the "Lou Gehrig" division...
There you have it. The perfect syllogism. Duke supports workfare. Duke is a racist Clinton supports workfare. Ergo Clinton is also a racist...
REAL DEPARTMENTS here will try to teach you facts. But nowadays, everyone knows that facts and ideas are useless. Ergo, the Core...
...whereas, as the late poet Robert Lowell said (not so long ago, when poets were at least invited to the White House), "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments," serious poets and writers in this country enjoy virtually no public celebration--ergo, don't need to worry their sweet little heads over anything more important than young girls...
...Kurdish minority. But there is nonetheless something pernicious about the analogy. Regardless of how those making the comparison try to qualify its implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos to the child warriors of the intifadeh, can too easily appear as agents of a new Holocaust...