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It used to be said of the former Soviet Union that while it excelled in such complicated endeavours as space exploration, the smallest things would fox it--the tap would leak and the flush would not work.
Who would have thought it--the queen of spin is losing a spin war.
Mills, a research professor in English at Sheffield Hallam University, looks at these issues in relation to conventional models of text in which a piece of written material is treated as if it existed in its own right with little reference to factors or constraints outside it--the socioeconomic factors of gender and race, for example.
Or just parts of it--the hostile work environment clause, say, or the gender-biased evidentiary rules?
Avoiding the truth is more like it--the Post didn't turn on the TV or tell the girl to suck her thumb.