Word: bitter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Candidates are sidestepping thorny topics in their search for their parties' nominations. The focus of the debate has remained too narrow, and our nation will reap the bitter dividend from this. Some crucial issues will go unexamined and unconsidered until well after we have made our collective choice...
...Does the bitter competition between Bush and McCain extend to Harvard...
...bitter taste of betrayal is still in some mouths. Love has not yet abandoned the band which first make her name in the industry, having recently come out with another hit album just last summer. While this bodes well for the future of riot grrl-ness, her original fans fear that Love has wandered (and stripped through) the world from New Zealand to Oregon and come home to Hollywood to roost...
...this squabbling over personal style brings to mind the old saw about academic infighting: in this case, the battles are so bitter because the differences are so small. Listening to Gore and Bradley, you'd think they were worlds apart in personality and policy, but in truth they are strikingly similar; in crucial ways, their personalities and habits of mind tend to mirror each other, so that choosing between them can seem like picking a sweater from the J. Crew catalog: Do you want it in slate or charcoal...
...first months of the war. The Chechens for the most part retreated in the face of Russian air power, armor and artillery, insisting their plan was to draw the Russians in and then harass them through guerrilla action. "Now we're entering the phase of a brutal and bitter partisan war in which the Chechens attack at night and try and raise the cost of the Russian siege," says Meier. "And the Russian military is clearly undecided about how to proceed. Even though it may be politically dangerous to risk the heavy casualties of trying to take Grozny, Russia...