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...jeans, tank tops and designer sunglasses--seem less like provocateurs than busy moms (they have seven kids in all, ages 1 to 5) amped up by a little free time. In conversation they are loud and unembarrassable, celebrating their lack of boundaries in that escalating, I-can-be-more-blunt-than-you way unique to sisters (which Maguire and Robison are) and women who have shared a tour-bus bathroom. They eagerly discuss the soullessness of Tom Cruise, the creepiness of Charlie Sheen and the price-fixing practices of hair colorists. But sex is the perennial champ, and they...
...question," he told Keigans. "Your father is going to need a double bypass, and he needs it immediately." The blood drained from Keigans' face. While she loved their plush hospital suite and the staff had been superb, this was all happening too far from home. Steinard, though, was blunt about his choices. It's either this, he said, or a fatal heart attack back home. The surgery last week was successful; the hospital's bill...
...hint of racism or nativism. "I have no doubt that some of those involved in the debate have their position based on fear and perhaps racism because of what's happening demographically in the country," says Ken Salazar, Democratic Senator from Colorado. A Senate Democratic leadership aide is more blunt: "A lot of the anti-immigration movement is jingoistic at best and racist at worst. There is a fear of white people being over run by darker-skinned people...
...bill that's all border security and lacking a guest-worker program, felt free to disparage the President. "I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill," said Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican, told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly after the President's speech. Roy Blunt, the House Whip and among the most habitual Bush loyalists, dismissed the plan, saying he had "real concerns" about moving ahead on guest workers without providing enough border security. Conservative blogs went nuts. "He had his chance and he blew it," wrote PowerLine, the conservative blog...
...undermine a strong tradition of faculty self-governance in the area of teaching.”Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield’s ’53 rose a few minutes later, and armed with a torn-in-half piece of notebook paper, launched a blunt attack on the current system of student evaluations.“Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors,” Mansfield said.Mansfield said that “the opinions of the best students get buried?...