Word: absents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looked more human and less calculating than the candidate we'd seen up until then. On election night, she commanded the stage. We saw her husband for only a brief embrace, and the familiar faces from the previous administration that had flanked her in Iowa were absent...
...while the first trial garnered much attention—including regular coverage from outlets including CourtTV and The New York Times—media coverage during the recent second trial was conspicuously absent. Even Pring-Wilson’s name recognition among members of the Harvard community—and even former professors and administrators around at the time—has faded substantially, according to more than a dozen interviews conducted by The Crimson over the past several weeks...
...wish. Back then there was an overabundance of satellite dishes - these big metal pans - for sale at nearly every shop. Today commerce has slowed to a crawl. The traffic now is a bit more orderly, but the number of horse-drawn carts has increased. Fancy cars are all but absent. And everyone is on edge - get too close and you might be a victim of the car bomb in front of you. And 2.2 million Iraqi civilians have fled their homes and are living as refugees, one of the largest mass migrations in recent human history. Now the city...
Missing out on the Iowa festivities this year: Arizona Senator John McCain, who will ring in the New Year with a series of town hall meetings in New Hampshire, squeezed in between two Iowa trips. Congressman Dennis Kucinich will also be absent; he plans to hold a party in New Hampshire. As for Congressman Ron Paul's campaign, several calls and emails to his camp went unanswered. And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be celebrating in - where else? - New York City...
...long as government institutions allow fear to dictate policy and rhetoric, a rational assessment of such techniques will be absent from the debate. By leaving the investigation of the destruction of the tapes to a sympathetic Justice Department, the Bush administration has once again used the language of fear to dodge responsibility. This time, members of Congress must not delegate their role to check the power of the executive. Instead, they must remind the American public who authorized the contents of the tapes in the first place...