Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael Huffingtonhas based much of his Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein on combatting illegal immigration, but now he admits employing an illegal alien in his posh Santa Barbara home for five years. Early Wednesday -- right after he reaffirmed his support for the anti-illegal immigration Proposition 187 -- the GOP nominee was asked whether he'd had ever employed an illegal alien, a violation of federal law. His answer: no problem he knew of. But last night, the Huffington camp issued a terse confession -- plus a so-far unsupported accusation that Feinstein had done the same thing. The Huffington...
Members from the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association were among those in attendance, claiming to be the aliens who kidnapped John Mack, a no-show at the ceremony. Mack, who is a professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, is notorious for his study on the victims of alien abduction...
...thousand folks milled genially around the swimming pool of the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota. In the gaudy gathering were folks bedecked as alien creatures and Japanese dinosaurs, staggering derelicts and severed heads on surgical trays. If anyone looked displaced in this demented Renaissance Fayre, it was the two gents in Starship Enterprise uniforms. Their name tags read whoops wrong convention...
...commitment to the Haitian people. "When I tell them I want justice for my people above all," he has said, "they look at me as though I'm crazy. But that is the one thing I keep in my mind all the time. Idealism is a little bit alien to them...
...acting (by local nonprofessionals) is spectacularly amateurish; the story is a series of anecdotes about hockey, shopping and loving the one you're with. But it's worth loitering in this shop. You never know what headline will show up on the cover of a tabloid (SPACE ALIEN REVEALED AS HEAD OF TIME WARNER -- REPORT STOCK INCREASE...