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The stunning incompetence of their war fighting effort until relatively late in the war.
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The seque from slavery to World War II isn't as strange as it might seem at first, considering the American mythologies about the Civil War and World War II in Europe.
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Background: Iran begins executions for adultery and other violations, July 10, 2007.
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Bush should be impeached. Otherwise we're saying his conduct in office is acceptable. Also, we need to restore some balance of power between the legislative and executive branches.
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How do you explain this to the boss?
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"What
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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs are uncut, unedited, and digitally restored and remastered.
I agree with Jones; he's not saying "What's Opera, Doc?" is a bad cartoon, it's just not a good
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Armed with...the desire to subvert the vampire genre film
Good luck with that. There have been movies with lesbian vampires (Blood and Roses, 1960), silly vampires (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948), bacteria-fueled vampire... [
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But damn, I wish Moore would learn to get a haircut and maybe use a comb or something.
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I wonder what Apple, who offer a web browser called Safari, think of O'Reilly's Safari service.
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Dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian-American," please. [
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Somehow Tokio Jokio (1943; recap) didn't make the list.
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I was on a business trip to Boston several years ago with a couple of colleagues, and we marveled at the abundance of Dunkin' Donuts stores. One of us could by lying down in the back seat and randomly call out "Double-D" and we'd be passing... [
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Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence:The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this,... [
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Don't you think it's a little sick to be punishing people for having sex
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It could have been a boy named Jane.
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Nixon Articles of Impeachment Adopted by the Committee on the Judiciary (Article 1, paragraph 9):endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for... [
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The judge sentenced them to three years in prison - suspended sentence. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool. And those two bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, 'for justice, we must... [
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What's everybody complaining about? Bush said, "if the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of," and he certainly kept his word.... [
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The User's Guide has instructions for removing the SIM card. [
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"Never was so much owed by so many to so few three guys." [
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Wikipedia; hard to believe Terry Gilliam passed on this. Reviews, extensive case study, and interviews.Even by the standards of the studio which dropped
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I really wanted to love the show, but it never really gelled. Towards the end Sorkin just said screw it and did West Wing episodes. Has there even been any of the show-within-a-show on in 2007?
I missed the one with Allison Janney.
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I think both Bush and Cheney should be impeached, but I agree with XQUZYPHYR that it's politically impossible. For now anyways. As we get closer to the election, Republicans are going to increasingly distance themselves from Bush and Cheney, and it... [
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Then there's the .88 Magnum. "It shoots through schools."
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Yes. The mission was
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Will there or will there not be universal health care in the US within the next 10 years?
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never once mentioning the impact universal health care has on taxes
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Then, death was real, and people were commonly exposed to it. The death of a child was a tragedy but not an uncommon one. Adults aged and died in the presence of their families.
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Isn't it a little fishy he survived so long?
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Just what I wanted to read about at the very moment I pulled out my lunch.
Box lunch? [
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Most of these words are overly complex when a simpler word would convey the same meaning and be more easily understood. For example, more people will understand what I mean by "everyday experience" than would if I said "quotidian... [
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I believe the
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There must be others I've forgotten about, or never seen - suggestions?
In the Heat of the Night, which is the source of Sidney Poitier's line, "They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
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Although it's often considered the dividing line between North and South, there are some issues with the Mason-Dixon Line (AKA the IHOP-Waffle House Line). Maryland and Delaware were both slave states; Maryland was below the line and Delaware was... [
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