Word: lies
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Ping pong and badminton. Both require agility, racquets and of course hand-eye coordination. So how does a would-be player choose between the two? Some of the differences are obvious--table vs. ground for instance. But beneath the glamorous veneer, lie the nuanced subtleties that set the two racquet sports apart. It's time for a little head-to-head action between the two club sports...
...some students say decisions about living arrangements are personal considerations, and should lie beyond the reach of administrators trying to create communities that serve a larger educational purpose...
Another of Osborn's pseudo-arguments is the picture of a harsh pre-Roe world where back-alley abortions killed thousands each year. This claim is not simply a misrepresentation, but a consciously fabricated and propagated lie. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of National Abortion Rights Activist League, who now opposes abortion, stated, "We spoke of 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year [from back-alley abortions]. I confess that I knew the figures were totally false...It was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics." Actually...
...choice" places. Counselors do not fully inform women about other options, and sometimes even lie to them. A former El Paso clinic manager stated, "If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately." Clinic workers are instructed not to allow women to view the ultrasound, because seeing the unborn child will discourage the woman from having an abortion...
...miles away. They wouldn't know if spent your nights eating grape leaves and playing the harmonica on the roof of Dunster House (still, I'd advise against this). Now, you think to yourself, "My parents don't even know enough about my life to force me to lie about it. Does this mean that now we should be friends?" Yes, but it's a strange adjustment. These new "friends" likely have dozens of pictures of you naked. Also, they were around for the week when you decided your new name was "Corey...