Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...constructed definition of "normal?" Will children and their pets soon be engineered from birth not to experience sadness and never chew on the carpeting? Will they be house-trained from birth? Will we suppress their libidos until they turn 21 (in their respective age-counting regimes)? Where does the right of a guardian stop...
...complain. To others in Red Sox nation, however, everything about this price increase stinks, right down to the timing of the announcement. Never blessed much in the way of PR savvy, the Red Sox stupidly sent out a press release announcing the price increase in the late afternoon on the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently their thinking was their could catch people away for the holiday weekend and maybe avoid the Saturday morning papers...
...urgency of the situation, none of us can afford to consider anything sacred anymore. Even Fenway is fair game these days. Fiscal demands have forced the Red Sox to install giant Coke bottles on the light towers above the Green Monster. And just this past September, the once-hallowed right field faade, which displays the team's five retired numbers, was forced to make way for a gigantically hideous Hood milk bottle...
...Yale, the issue is more controversial. The Yale Graduate Employees and Student Organization (GESO), which has been embroiled in heated debates with the Yale administration to gain the right to unionize, said the impact of the TA union at NYU will be very favorable for student unions at private institutions...
...speech, Bush nailed Gore's problem right on the head: "Time runs short, and we have a lot of work to do." We also have Christmas shopping to do, and we want a president one of these days. Bush, in his quest to speed up the clock, is in perfect position as a candidate who ran as "a uniter, not a divider" - and it sure looks like America could use some of that, even if it has to swallow some nagging questions...