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...made him the early, formidable favorite for the 2000 race. Now, although it's two years until the first primary contest of 2008, a surprising number of those very same people seem to be settling on a most ironic choice: Arizona Senator John McCain, George W. Bush's bitter adversary in 2000 and a mischiefmaker whose name has become synonymous with the cause of making money less important in politics...
This morally ambiguous world populated by the imperfect is resonant and real—and it is vintage Connelly. Bitter detectives, sympathetic thieves, and model citizens-cum-pedophiles pervade the former journalist’s other books, almost all of which have been bestsellers...
...can’t rest on the assumption that equality is here to stay,” Friedan said at the IOP in 1980. “I don’t want to see a generation of lonely, tired, bitter women in the next few years in backlash against what I have worked so hard for,” she added...
...it’s become…almost a class requirement. You see, the majority of my students possess enthusiastic, brilliant minds that understand exactly the importance of all I have to preach teach them and appreciate my weekly performance. And I don’t want to sound bitter but, after all, it’s just a little galling when one killjoy fails to rise with the rest. Did I do something to offend the brat...
...depression came and didn't leave. The more financially secure he was, Coria says, the more overwhelmed he became by memories of his bitter past: the beatings he suffered as a boy working construction in Mexico City; the disapproval of his mother, who never seemed satisfied with the money he sent back every week. Coria fled the Hamptons abruptly last year in the middle of the busy summer season to recuperate in Tuxpan. Once a week, he makes the six-hour round-trip drive to see a therapist in Mexico City. He's planning on returning to the Hamptons...