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This twisted argument--that we are right in practice but wrong in theory--has become the last refuge of people who simply do not understand what has been happening in the stock market over the past two decades and who cling to an old paradigm that recent history has clearly repudiated.
Pollard's supporters can cling to that excuse.
The neuropathy and blindness caused him to cling to the center walls for balance and orientation.
What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to "intensive motherhood," as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.
The intervening snowy marvels are in cotton--crisp and vigorous, or frothy and delicate--followed by the modern silky columns that cling, fall, or drape in unexpected ways.