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And is the so-called resistance movement therefore a kind of optical illusion, generated by a need to find some shred of goodness or worth in Germany under the Nazis?
The NYT fronts and the rest of the papers go inside with what is perhaps the world land speed record for credibility disintegration: not only does that St. Martin's Press book alleging that George W. Bush has a coke conviction in his past not contain a shred of convincing evidence, but it turns out that the book's author is apparently a convicted felon who did a five-year stretch for attempted murder.
The former chief of counterintelligence told the Washington Post that investigators targeted Lee because he is Chinese-American and that there is not a "shred of evidence" against him . However, an Energy Department official told the New York Times that the charges of racism are bunk and that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background.
The scene evokes the gracious life, even if it doesn't quite translate to the real world: As dog owners know, the family pet--if it fetches the newspaper--is as likely to shred it as to deliver it.
Corporate executives complained that because their archives are routinely subpoenaed by plaintiffs' attorneys, they have every incentive to shred their data instead of preserving them.