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Private enemies could also tyrannize each other: What will you do if your neighbor threatens to frame you for some crime, and you know the courts might convict you on borderline evidence?
Sometimes McCain defines his patriotic challenge in terms of political reform, as he did here at the Reagan Library, where he called it "a fight against the pervasive cynicism that is debilitating our democracy, that cheapens our public debates, that threatens our public institutions, our culture and, ultimately, our private happiness."
David Berreby argued last year in Slate that exhaustive documentation of our world threatens to box us into a corner.
Did you see the Larry King column in USA Today ? He says that Clinton told him he owns the original Harry Truman letter to the music critic, the one where he threatens to punch out the guy for criticizing his daughter's piano recital.
They reject the new property because it threatens their absolute control of the old.