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It remains a place where Slate members can speak out, unmolested by meddlesome editors wielding software programs such as Semicolon Killer TM and Shut Up Already 98 for Windows TM and Antitrust AutoPurge Pro TM (which automatically erases any turn of phrase analyzed to agree with the Justice Department--about anything).
Chancellor John White had announced that he would shut down the money-losing operation.
You could tell me to shut up and go back to my little Olympic world if--if--newspaper circulation numbers weren't plummeting.
The longest stretch of Eyes Wide Shut features Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) on an endless nocturnal prowl, perturbed by his wife's needling confession that she once had a sexual fantasy about a naval officer she saw in a hotel lobby.
Now every serious politician either supports the death penalty and makes a show of it, as Bill Clinton has, or keeps his mouth shut.