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...Presidential press conference had the feel of a therapy session but without the subtlety. "Would you not feel so much better," George W. Bush was repeatedly asked in so many words, "admitting to us the sheer folly of your disastrous policies?" Of course, in demanding a confession, the press corps was seeking catharsis not for the President/patient but for itself, hungry for the satisfaction of puncturing the stubborn certainty of this utterly determined war President...
...Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter is accompanied by melodramatic flashes of thunder and lightning. The rest of the sketch tends to drag, and by the end, when Bertrand starts talking with the toilet, it has lapsed into sheer baffling nonsense...
...independent state. That battle largely defined the eight years of José María Aznar's government, whose fate was sealed by its insistence on ETA authorship of the March 11 bombings. Might al-Qaeda's attacks on Madrid mark the end of ETA as well? The sheer size and indiscriminate horror of the bombings trumped the Basque terrorists' targeted approach...
Though the Beanpot crowds have never come close to filling the 33,871 seats at Fenway, the empty seats have never detracted from the sheer thrill of playing at one of Major League Baseball’s most legendary stadiums. If anything, the open seats provided a rare opportunity for spectators to watch the games from all over the ballpark, including from the coveted Green Monster seats on top of left field...
Surely, such charges coming from a trial lawyer lobby group should be taken with a grain of salt. But whether they come out of sheer special-interest politicking—which would come as no surprise—or simply misguided efforts to curb rising health care expenses, caps on malpractice lawsuits are unfair to the victims and undermine an effective jury system...