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...safe side. "A system of defense need not be perfect, but the American people must not be left completely defenseless," he said. Think about that one for a moment: Allowing for any margin of error in the functioning of a multibillion dollar system designed to stop the odd missile fired by a rogue state renders it pointless. It's rather like applying the "need not be perfect" standard to a condom...
After Bookman's yellow card prematurely ended the third game, Harvard was awarded a point for Roy's yellow card, which was assessed to begin the fourth game. The Crimson shook off the odd turn of events and went on an offensive roll. Harvard won the fourth and final game, 30-26, with a Kowell block acting as an exclamation point for the match...
After Bookman's yellow card prematurely ended the third game, Harvard was awarded a point for Roy's yellow card, which was assessed to begin the fourth game. The Crimson shook off the odd turn of events and went on an offensive roll. Harvard won the fourth and final game, 30-26, with a Kowell block acting as an exclamation point for the match...
...maybe it wasn't so odd that during his second-to-last night in the White House, Clinton was worried about how Bush would react to the timing of independent counsel Robert Ray's announcement of a Lewinsky settlement. Sure, Clinton had been bouncing around the country like Ricky Martin for two weeks, hogging the spotlight, but a natural-born pol like Bush could see that was fair game. Clinton turned to TV producer/director Thomason--an old friend who had got muddied in Travelgate and who with his wife Linda had spent the last Thanksgiving, the last Christmas...
...feel about foxhunting the way I do about smoking. I wouldn't do it myself, but as long as no one's brandishing his lifestyle in my living room, why should I care? The British, by and large, have long taken this view of odd behavior, which is why my homeland is still a relatively free and often eccentric place. "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" was Oscar Wilde's timeless description of the hunt scene, and it is impossible, as always, to better Wilde. If a bunch of aristocrats want to get dressed up in pink suits...