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The Times describes how the largest crowd Clinton ever spoke to--some half a million Ghanians--surged against the barricades, threatening to "overwhelm the president."
A Rolodex she crossed barricades to retrieve in the days after Sept. 11 is headed for the trash.
He also takes whacks at those old chestnuts and/or and ss . Under the heaviest duress, such as the threat of boiling in ink, lawyers might relinquish all these; but they will fight to the bitter end and finally die at the barricades before surrendering their whereases . Never mind that, the author says; Whereas is consistently vague, meaning variously `the fact is,' `although,' `considering that,' `on the contrary,' and `that being the case,' with many shadings in between.
The catch is that the "classes" glowering at each other across the barricades aren't rich and poor.
The Daily Mail 's front-page headline, above a picture of French farmers halting British trucks with burning barricades at the Channel port of Calais, was "Merde ! What a flaming cheek," and inside in an editorial it said, "A million scientists proclaiming that beef from excrement-fed cattle is safe will only reinforce the commonsense view that animals fed in such a disgusting way cannot possibly be healthy."