Word: blunts
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Some Bush Administration insiders are acidly recounting the irony of a blunt lecture John Sununu delivered to former Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos last December. When the chief of staff summoned the ineffectual Cabinet member and asked him to resign, Sununu included a few sharp comments on Cavazos' travel habits. The Secretary usually took along his wife Peggy Ann, and is suspected of paying her fares with frequent-flyer credits he earned on official business -- an apparent violation of federal rules requiring those bonuses to be turned over to the government. The couple also preferred to travel on TWA, even when...
...longs for shiny heroes. "It's sort of overwhelming," he says, blinking in the limelight. "I didn't have a sense of how completely spontaneous it would be." His incandescent televised briefing after the liberation of Kuwait sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges of the Saudi desert for the sandbox that is American politics...
...BLUNT, the Class of '94 absolutely and unequivocably sucks...
...Shakespeare's first comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona lacks both complexity and freshness. The play contains the early prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
...like it, the Republicans enjoy the ultimate advantage. They will intensify demands for continued funding of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which uses Patriot-like technology. And they will no doubt remind voters that many Democrats opposed deployment of sea-launched cruise missiles for arms control purposes. Candidates might pose blunt questions like, "How many more pilots would have died had the Democrats been able to kill the Tomahawk...