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I've already seen a million cheesecake photos of Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore, and despite the dictates of Talk's "Hip List," I am not prepared to believe that scabby knees are cool.
The ambiguity probably arose from She/He taught her/him everything she/he knows (about something specified), in which the referent of the second She/he is ambiguous: common sense dictates that it refer to the subject of the sentence, not to the her or him, thus yielding the more reasonable She taught him everything she knows or He taught her everything she knows .
Both the UK report and rumblings from the US government suggest that any legislative dictates on access to scientific literature are likely to be structured to minimize potentially deleterious implications for established, subscription-based journals, for-profit and not-for-profit alike.
Instead, it's the company that owns the name that dictates the terms.
If meaning appears neutral, as it does in the modern dictionaries, it is only so following the dictates of objectivity, an ideology in itself, and the politics of invisibility.