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    He's never owned up to the fact that plenty of inner-city minority schools are doing the job with less money. He's an ideologue so he can't admit Catholic schools are doing better jobs with less money, ... If you read the corpus of his work, it's clear he wants to use schools for indoctrinating kids with a progressive ideology.





    And when we will finally understand all this we will know how to see our God that is our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one. Then we will realize that in fact, the Accidental Occurrence through which it left its print in our world was not an occurrence of suffering nor of loss of hope that the existence of this world that we have long wished it did not exist any more gave us, but that print was a print that asked only one thing of us, those who think through the Logical Coefficient 2, namely to understand the miracle of the fact that we exist, that we can sense poetry, nature, the colours of autumn, the sound of rivers, and woods, of the waves, and they are neither mistakes nor sadness. For us, who think through the logical Coefficient 2, because for others in the worlds with other Logical Coefficients, the Accidental Occurrence was in its eternity something else. But for us, it was sadness because some colour of sadness was necessary, not only of happiness, or disappointment or fulfilment, of hope and unfufilment, of success and hard work and other colours to paint this wonderful painting that is the nature of this world.



    It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.

    People around here are quite anxious about this and with good reason. The long and short of it is that these jobs are gone and the contribution they make to the economy is gone. It's nice to soften the impact of that. But the fact is that they will have far less employment.

    Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

    Capping the upside is the fact that inventories have not drawn much despite the cold weather we have had thus far and therefore are not unsettling the markets much.

    I feel with TV you're allowed more freedom. With television there's more time to create something through the episodes. The fact that you're working harder on the surface seems more difficult, but you get into a way of working where if you're not allowed to stop and breathe and think about it, you just go on instinctively, which is the way I prefer anyway. It becomes a more spontaneous thing.

    He was confident with the football, ... He certainly wasn't afraid of contact wasn't looking to run out of bounds. He was looking to gain positive yards. In fact, at the end of plays you see him tackled and then reaching the ball forward just to make a statement One more yard.

    Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

    There is deep intuitive wisdom in this American tolerance of economic variety and in our refusal to commit ourselves to any one social and economic system. It is recognition of the fact that life and truth are too varied and complex to be confined within the pattern of any single deliberately planned economic system.

    I appreciate the fact my teammates had the confidence in me to pass me the ball and that Coach Frank had the confidence in me to be on the court at that time of the game. That's what I get paid to do, to be a basketball player.



    Sales success didn't just happen by chance. It happened because of some things we're doing right.... We're proud of the fact that we've invested in this business on an ongoing basis.

    While Sen. Kerry's rationale has evolved over his four terms, his record is clear. His rationale has shifted over the two decades, but his opposition to national defense programs is consistent -- cut, cut, cut and cancel, cancel, cancel programs that are vital to national security, ... Highlighting this fact is not 'cherry picking.' His 20-year career in the Senate is a cherry tree whose roots are found in his first run in 1984.

    I went 85 games without a shutout and now I've got four in a row, ... I'm just trying to enjoy it. The attention is nice, but the fact that we're winning games is really nice, too.

    For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.

    Harm reduction reflects the fact that people have a very difficult time stopping smoking, so they are looking for alternatives, ... This is furthering the harm-reduction debate. It's a reasonable debate. It pits the quit-or-die people against the just-reduce-and-you'll-reduce-harm people. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as either message.


    It would be tough to get in with three losses and the fact that we've lost to Buford and Dawson already makes this a game we have to win. But it's the same for Wesleyan since they have two losses. Last week was the game we really needed to win. It was at home and we thought we had done enough to win it. So now we have to find a way to win on the road, which is tough to do in this region.

    In fact, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has continuously discussed the opening policy over the past two years and the government has also prepared completely for the opening.





    Given that her mother lived to 101, the Queen is clearly in for the long haul. Therefore the Prince of Wales must simply wait. We can only wish his mother all health and happiness and get used to the fact that British heads of state will, in future, be very senior citizens.

    Nunn told the capacity crowd the Nunn-Lugar concept has, in fact, been called the agreement of the century. The man who helped make it happen was Dick Lugar, ... He has unending energy. He never quits. No one can over-exaggerate his accomplishments.

    What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

    The resilience of this team, the character we showed in coming back and beating Finland yesterday, we're all proud of ourselves in the fact that we're bringing the U.S. home a medal, It was great for us to start off strong, and I think we scored like two minutes, 30 seconds into the game, a good testament to the team that we were really refocusing and really went hard right from the beginning.

    There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.

    When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. Its not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we... But you dont have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.

    NSI officials deny that it's their fault, ... But the fact is that if you pay NSI, you are presuming that in the morning the last thing you have to worry about is whether you own your domains. If it's not their fault and it's not Nike's fault, then whose fault is it

    The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

    Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.

    The fact is that they Blue Man Group brought in a law firm to fight us on negotiations and the election. Unfortunately, the law firm is very anti-union. And they have a large group of lawyers on their payroll.

    The economy has improved substantially. People once again have a little disposable income and have the ability to dine out a little bit more often. Really, it's the fact that the quality has improved in the last few years in the pizza industry.


    Right now, where Mike McMahon will be is ahead of Joey Harrington, ... That's just obvious. He's going to know the system better. He's going to know the offense in and out. There's no way that Harrington can just drop right in there. Mike will have to be the guy, and it'll be a good competition. I think he's up to it. In fact, I know he is.

    It was the Red Cross that found this problem. We put into effect these call centers to speed up delivery of support to people that needed it. As part of that, we put into place mechanisms to look for fraud up front and to find fraud after the fact.

    I felt very much appreciated on the field today, ... There were a lot of people with Saints jerseys that were very nice to me in welcoming me back. I don't want to minimize the fact there was some personal adulation based on the reception I received.

    He's not oblivious to the fact that people in Washington will take note when he says something, especially something outlandish, but his primary audience is his listeners.




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