The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'


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They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS
We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substanti...
DAN ABRAMS
But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22,
DAN ABRAMS
A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...
DAN ABRAMS
All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club.
DAN ABRAMS
The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be bloomin...
DAN ABRAMS
This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.
DAN ABRAMS
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to mos...
DAN ABRAMS
He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers ...
DAN ABRAMS
It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closin...
DAN ABRAMS
The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of ...
DAN ABRAMS
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or i...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to ...
LEIGH ABRAMS
We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the v...
LEIGH ABRAMS
Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less tha...
LEIGH ABRAMS
The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet...
LEIGH ABRAMS
It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH ABRAMS
Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant ...
LEIGH ABRAMS
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those dec...
JOHN ABRAMS
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions p...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations Gen...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
[In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ...
FLOYD ABRAMS
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a r...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Ra...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet
ALICE ABRAMS
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we...
DAN ABRAMS
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to pr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS