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The seals are victims not of research or of subsistence hunting, says Hunt , but of an unsubstantiated claim that their penises increase human potency ("totally inexcusable" in "what is supposed to be an enlightened age," actor William Shatner, one of a growing cast of luminaries who have signed on to the IFAW cause, has been quoted as saying).
Media luminaries from ABC News anchor Peter Jennings to Washington Post Co. mogul Katharine Graham have supported the PDFA since its inception.
Dutifully following instructions, I find myself in a GOP Web site endowed with the collected wisdom of such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.
All the usual luminaries were there, with the exception of the incredibly dedicated David Broder, who video-conferenced in from Winterset, Iowa.
The luminaries behind the American Prospect offer a new journal for the liberal libidinal imagination.