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And for this biographer, "one of the most tasteful campaigns in the history of modern American politics"--Eastwood's run, as a property-rights Republican, for mayor of Carmel, Calif.--was one in which the star likened a civic ordinance that would ban second kitchens to "Adolf Hitler knocking on your door."
"There is incredible symbolism about being tied to a fence," one gay activist told the Times . "People have likened it to a scarecrow.
Carl Woese likened the different rates of evolution at the positions in the rRNA to the hands on a clock [ 4 ] . The highly variable regions are associated with the second hand; these can change many times for each single change that occurs in the regions associated with the minute hand.
Tuesday Izvestia likened her to a star that flashed for a short time, but for long enough to change the world--"our Soviet, gray, reinforced-concrete world."
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner likened Clemens to NBA deity Michael Jordan.