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In her long-expected announcement , Dole likened Bush to Ronald Reagan and said he would repair the presidency's tarnished image.
The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.
Olhão used to be described as the “little white Cubist town of the Algarve,” its architecture likened to that of North African towns.
It accused HIV researchers of "self-serving justification," and likened their studies to the Tuskegee experiment.
"He has been likened in the past to a garden gnome and even a prawn.