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...administration's loose talk about the long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game, unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. Scant attention over the last ten years resulted in its level being perhaps $2.2 billion below where it should be now. Reasonable people may differ as to the exact figures, but not as to their magnitude...
...malady she was spared was self-pity. Sue held her own at jacks and hide- and-seek, and later sneaked Viceroys with Nan behind the drugstore instead of going to Mass. She was the one with the sense of humor, memorizing the candy-on-a-speeded-up-conveyor-belt episode from I Love Lucy; the one who was tone-deaf but couldn't care less, belting out Cross Over the Bridge, the Patti Page rouser, at top volume...
Cliff: That really burns my hide that Lilith sent him that mailgram...
First, privacy: should men or women be forced to live in cramped quarters with people who might find them sexually attractive? We don't ask men and women to live together partially for this reason. Currently in the military this is not a problem because gays are forced to hide their orientation...
...party. An artful, if disgraceful display of jujitsu; this is a tactic one encounters in wife beaters and child abusers, who ingeniously manage to convince themselves, if not the authorities, that they were driven to it by the terrible behavior of their victims. A filthy conscience often goes to hide in the refuge of self- pity...