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In Rome, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano defended the Dominican order's campaign to beatify Girolamo Savonarola, the fire-and-brimstone monk who was excommunicated, hanged, and burned in Florence 500 years ago.
In an editorial, the paper defended Simpson's reporting from Belgrade, but attacked NATO for being so quick to blame Serbia for the deaths of Albanian refugees in the disputed convoy incident.
Gore has defended the bombing-only strategy so vehemently that he'll suffer if the president does send ground troops.
Indeed, the whole "New Economy" doctrine--a doctrine relentlessly espoused by his magazine for the last few years and vociferously defended in a recent signed essay by Shepard himself--is based on a misunderstanding of the relationship between measurement and reality that is conceptually identical to the garbled thinking of the imaginary editor retrieving his car.
As such, they should be vigorously defended.