He had been thinking of state executions by hanging, like those in the Old West, not a racist lynching by a mob.
Social democrats are used to thinking of the state as the fixer of problems, not as the problem itself.
"It is not possible even to begin to take the full measure of the greatness of British film-making without thinking of Chris Challis," stated Martin Scorsese.
Now the Red Storm players -- and especially Barkley -- shouldn't be thinking of Ohio State as the team that kept them out of the Final Four.
Although I had a happy childhood in Oklahoma, I grew up thinking of the state as an unlucky one, not so much because of, say, the Dust Bowl, but because of what I saw around me.
Thinking of that state of affairs, Thoreau writes, "I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him".
He pretended to concentrate on his newspaper, although he was, in fact, still thinking of the state of New Jersey, which he envisioned as a series of vast shopping-mall parking lots, where any fool could find a spot.
The statement by a Pentagon spokesman quoted in "Arrested Development" (Op-Ed, June 29) to explain, if not justify, the detention of children in United States facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay -- "Age is not a determining factor in detention" -- may also reflect the thinking of many state and federal legislators when it comes to the detention of children here at home.
This is really funny at first, but who is thinking of the State IT workers?
We don't want to do this, but the dangerously self-serving and backwards thinking of the state's elected leadership leaves us no choice.
