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Do not let any bumptious, presumptious, officious, malicious or contentious reactionary socialist come between you and interfere to counteract the felicitary interprications of your marriage bed.
Writing in USA Today, sometime Slate contributor Walter Shapiro laments that Bush's remarks were over-rehearsed and "totally skirted such contentious issues as public schools run on a for-profit basis and the merits of teaching to ace tests."
The deal, in short: Both sides will present their cases beginning next week, but the contentious decision over whether to call witnesses has merely been postponed until after the initial arguments.
Conversely, IL-10 gene-knockout mice develop a chronic colitis that is extremely similar to IBD [ 25 ] . IL-10 treatment can reduce inflammation in several models of colitis [ 26 27 28 29 30 ] and human IBD [ 31 32 33 34 35 ] . However, the clinical efficacy of systemically administered IL-10 for patients mild to moderately active Crohn's disease has not been as effective as hoped [ 33 34 35 ] . Furthermore the efficacy of IL-10 administration in mouse colitis models is contentious [ 36 ] .
Miller gets his most contentious in the Velvet Underground chapter, when he challenges critic David Fricke's statement that the Velvets were " 'exiled from the mainstream' ... greeted with " 'almost total rejection.' "