"The Washington Post " in an article of 28 February 2007 quotes Dever as saying, " I just think it's a shame the way this story is being hyped and manipulated " and " all of the names [ contained in the tomb ] are common . " In fact, two of the names found in the tomb are unique among known ossuaries, and Jacobovici's argument does not in any case rely on the commonness or uncommonness of individual names, but on the statistical probability of finding a set of names in a single tomb.
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In the course of these conversations, you realize anew what a sensitive ear Mr . LaBute has for the uncommonness in common speech of the individuality within everyday language and for how people of all levels of education and eloquence use words as instruments of power . . . What makes this play resonate is less its Big Theme beauty ( or lack thereof ) and its discontents than how that theme illuminates the insecurities of people who don t feel they have much to offer the world . . . " reasons to be pretty " is in part about learning to listen.
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The Minutemen could only be " reactivated " upon hearing a code-word known by Graves, chosen for its uncommonness and specificity to " the greatest crime in the history of mankind . " Additionally some sort of physical / mental trauma seems to play a role in the reactivation of several Minuteman, as some characters are subjected to extreme circumstances as an apparent part of their " waking up . " To what exact extent this trauma is tied to the reactivation process ( or if it intrinsically is at all ) is unknown, as the reader is not explicitly shown every character's specific reactivation process.
