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...will offer the remaining 10% a plural society. If they disavow the use of force and violence, if they forswear the use of guns and agree to disband the N.P.A., there is no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to join the political mainstream. If they resist, they will have declared themselves as public enemies, but they will be easier to subdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call for Fairness | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...reminiscent of an old Yenta. The aged matchmaker who would travel around a town to match up young lovers has been replaced by complicated algorithms. We live in the technology age, and computers now affect everything from grocery shopping to research to…polygamous relationships? PolyMatchMaker.com promises plural dating, opportunities for those interested in polygamous relationships. For the more traditional sorts, matchmaker.com sets up two-person relationships, and promises that “by the time you meet, you know...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig, | Title: Of Queens and Queens... | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...With a singular or plural noun. Not any. (e.g., 1804 ‘E. DE ACTON’ Tale without Title: “I never reads no Novels; for I knows nothing they are good...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Much Confidence Don’t They Have? | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question is, Is he really in charge?" a U.S. intelligence expert told me. "Is Syria singular or plural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointment in Damascus | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...spent a few hours with Assad last week at his private office in the hills overlooking Damascus and found the singular-or-plural question unanswerable. It was a terrible day for Syria's President. Thousands of people were in the streets of Lebanon demanding that his troops withdraw from the country they have occupied since the mid-'70s. A few hours after our meeting, the pro-Syrian Lebanese government resigned. Damascus-based leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad had taken credit for a Tel Aviv nightclub bombing that had killed five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointment in Damascus | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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