At the University of California, Berkeley, the Chancellor was fiercely criticized by local faculty and national media for a statement pitting civility against freedom of speech.
At Calvin College my 'widening the gap' remark, in its context, sought to challenge the students to think outside the box when they hear stock statements that pit one group of people against another.
Throughout the Fall, Trump and Carson have taken positions or have made statements that 1) pit them against the Republican establishment 2) would hurt them in a general election campaign if they were to secure the party's nomination and 3) would weaken the chances of any GOP candidate against their likely Democratic foe, Hillary Clinton.
"This looks like you're deliberately trying to make a statement with your fire pit; it's an object you've curated for your living environment".
There is in the documents no explicit statement adopting the 75 pit target as government policy (though given the sensitivity about putting anything in writing you would not expect one).
JoAnne Kennedy, the chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy, said that other instances of innocent sabotage involve statements like "they train pit bulls and have five grandchildren that they like to take care of".
And when the Parish Council met on a proposed moratorium on new borrow pits last October 10, it received an Army Corps statement saying that existing borrow pits already met the needs of federal and non-federal levee projects in the parish.
"The suspected burning was a routine burn-pit session," the statement said.
The weight of that statement sank like a heavy stone settling in the pit of my stomach, resulting in a life filled with anxiety, fear and painful ulcerations.
This echoes Stephen King's statement that all horror fiction, by pitting an absolute good against an absolute evil, is "as Republican as a banker in a three-piece suit".
