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Defending Mel.


I object to the terse Terse - Language for decryption of hardware logic.

["Hardware Logic Simulation by Compilation", C. Hansen, 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf, 1988].
 way in which Lawrence S Lawrence.

1 City (1990 pop. 26,763), Marion co., central Ind., a residential suburb of Indianapolis, on the West Fork of the White River. It has light manufacturing.

2 City (1990 pop. 65,608), seat of Douglas co., NE Kans.
. Cunningham, while praising Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, offhandedly off·hand  
adv.
Without preparation or forethought; extemporaneously.

adj. also off·hand·ed
Performed or expressed without preparation or forethought. See Synonyms at extemporaneous.
 dismissed Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ as "awful" ("Religion Booknotes," January 13). Christ the Lord is truly a wonderful read. But to cast a stone at Gibson's powerful and instructive movie without offering any specific criticism is unfair.

CAL DUNHAM

Russellville, Ark.
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Title Annotation:Letters
Author:Dunham, Cal
Publication:Commonweal
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:Mar 24, 2006
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