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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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15.3.06

Dept. of Portentous Ellipses...

although Israel welcomed the pursuit of a new human rights framework at the UN...
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including individuals who are actively choosing to not be online...
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Saddam Hussein got his first chance to face his accusers in his crimes against humanity trial in Baghdad on Wednesday (March 15), but the testimony didn't last long...
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We plan to prosecute them and others involved in this vile chat room to the fullest extent...
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Those who took the drug fell ill...
Nowhere in this story is it made plain that the men were participating for money, not because they had the illness the drug is supposed to treat. The default assumption is that they had the illness, but that is not the case.
The obscene and inhuman, and mostly invisible, layer of human "volunteer" guinea pigs around these erstwhile saviours of humanity is right out there in the darkest parts of the moral wilderness. The letter of the law and the death of the human spirit hand in hand. "But think of the lives we'll save!" When it's "Think of the money we'll make!"
It's like selling blood used to be, for bums and winos. A cheap quick way to get another bottle. Now it's mostly "students", for which read lower and lower middle class kids with ambition and not enough money.

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a smear on Florida's image...
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people who say I'm going to hell and they'd do their best to put me there...
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In addition to the children, the youngest of whom was 6 months old, the dead included four women and two men, police said...
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They're hoping to shake our resolve and make us retreat," Bush told a pro-democracy group in Washington...
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While the Bush administration has downplayed prospects for permanent US bases in Iraq, General John Abizaid told a House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday he could not rule that out...
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An FBI counterterrorism unit monitored - and apparently infiltrated - a peace group in Pittsburgh that opposed the invasion of Iraq, according to internal agency documents released on Tuesday...
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nothing Kendall-Smith was asked to do could have amounted to a crime, and he therefore had no right to disobey...
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access to good restaurants and bars, and were well paid, reported to be on a basic of $53,000 a year plus a further $24,000 in expenses...
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