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Was the division between retrograde, despised "academism" and noble, inventive "modernism" always as sharp as has been said? Were the black hats so black, and the white ones so white? Of course not. In fact there are moments when you can hardly tell them apart. A case in point is...
Tomorrow's soldiers will also be outfitted with the Army's new Buck Rogers-like supergun. The lower of its two barrels sprays more standard bullets, but the key to the new rifle--given the catchy Army name of "objective individual combat weapon"--is the 20-mm air-burst round...
Representative Bill McCollum, a Florida Republican who has received $225,000 from the lending industry, upped the ante: "Bankruptcy will cost consumers more than $50 billion in 1998 alone. That translates into more than $550 per household in higher costs for goods, services and credit."
That is the fallacy of crowds. The crowd means you have organized a lot of people. Yes, you hope to have similar numbers joining you to vote your views in November. But crowd passion (an intense, highly motivated core sample) rarely translates into proportional ballot power in general elections.
"She thinks it's terrible that that's the case," Seltzer translates.