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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."
The fair still showcased some of the arts-and-craftsy "novelty" elements (lights in the shape of pigs or brassieres, chairs made from shopping carts or traffic barricades) that earned it the "bad flea market" label when it began a decade ago.
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.
NPR listeners are bland, white, Midwestern, and very, very old--more likely to watch birds than to man barricades.
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."