Word: boastful
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...that disgust with Clinton might stain him by association. Kerry has no such baggage. He may be a Skull and Bones like Bush, but his heroism in Vietnam and public service in the Senate give him abundant patriotic currency. Likewise, should John Edwards somehow steal the nomination, he can boast of a working class success story that embodies the American dream...
Senators rarely get elected president because their voting records are easy targets for the opposition. In the past 80 years, only one sitting Senator has been elected to the presidency: John F. Kennedy. While John Forbes Kerry may boast the same home state and initials, he is no Kennedy. BRIAN W. EXNER Santa Cruz, Calif...
...Morocco, on a pinchpenny budget of $6 million, Scorsese recreated a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. He found actors whose faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; whose voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents...
...expressing opinions that are less popular in Hollywood than they are in the rest of the country. So my bet is that the studios will keep hiring him, for two reasons. One: they believe in box office, and Mel delivers it for them. Two: they could then boast they have hired at least a token religious right-winger...
...hockey team quite like a game against Dartmouth. But then, few rivalries in any collegiate sport stack up to the storied battles between the Crimson (22-2-1, 12-2-0 ECAC) and the Big Green (18-5-2, 10-3-1)—especially when they can boast national rankings of No. 1 and No. 3, respectively...