Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

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"The very idea that many journalists believe their role now is to give advice to candidates of either major party -- in effect offering tips on how to sway voters through image rather than substance -- is not only surreal but outrageous."

-- Howard Rosenberg, TV critic for the Los Angeles Times, complains that TV reporters have become coaches in this year's presidential debates.

"I believe socialism is inevitable."

-- U.S. Communist Party boss Gus Hall, recently deceased at age 90, following a lifetime of controversy and jailings. Over the years his organization declined in membership, from around 100,000 in the 1930s to perhaps 15,000 in the 1990s.

"This date is based on a now-globally recognized calendar established by the sixth-century scholar Dionysius Exiguus."

-- A statement by the U.S. Naval Observatory explaining that, since there is no year "zero," the third millennium officially begins on Jan. 1, 2001.

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