Word: bandness
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...themselves as “Moderate” and including the ubiquitous beer bottle in their profile picture to assure us that they are students in college. Then there are political no-shows who can’t name three vice-presidents and think Afghanistan is a punk-rock band selecting “Liberal” as a political preference and showing off those ideological credentials by including a quote by that liberal icon Winston Churchill...
...Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—chances are you wouldn’t get a very warm response. Viscerally aware of the party dogma on decentralization, a lot of Republicans have reacted violently to NCLB’s federal mandates; others, the more disconcerting band of Bush cheerleaders, usually give a nod of the head and a coy few words, perhaps a “well, he tried.” On the Left, NCLB occupies a place on the official hit list of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., with the senator’s blithe suggestion...
Just when it looked like Senator John Kerry?s so-called Band of Brothers were unified in vouching for his leadership in Vietnam there is suddenly a lone ripple of dissent in the ranks. ?What can I say?? Kerry said when told that a former crewmate had unpleasant memories of him as his commanding officer. ?I?ll take nine out of ten testimonies anytime...
...This was unexpected news. In Tour of Duty I portrayed the crew of PCF-44 as a true Band of Brothers-it turns out they were a Band of Brothers minus one. A disappointed Wasser gave me Gardner?s telephone numbers, reminding me that PCF-44 gunner?s mate was nicknamed ?The Wild Man? by his crewmates for his hair-trigger penchant for firing M-60s into the mangrove thicket. ?Let me know what you find out,? Wasser told me. ?I?m having trouble understanding where he?s coming from...
With the Crimson on the power play and following close on the heels of two “almost goals”—the first of which was so convincing that the Harvard band began to play while a pair of Crimson skaters held their arms in celebration—Bernakevitch bounded through the slot and guided the puck past Russell to extend the lead...