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IF DC spent an ounce of the mental energy it expends on sports on education then the city might be livable once again.
Only Variety 's Todd McCarthy notes that the premise--the Army expends ridiculous resources on a dubious rescue mission--is "far-fetched."
As we have pointed out, "[i]t does not follow . . . that viewpoint-based restrictions are proper when the [government] does not itself speak or subsidize transmittal of a message it favors but instead expends funds to encourage a diversity of views from private speakers."
You can hear as much in tapes of Stevens reading aloud; he is so intent on keeping an even, magisterial tone that he occasionally loses himself in the convoluted syntax on which Vendler expends such analytic energy.