Word: boasting
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...Yankees boast Andy Pettite, Roger Clemens, Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez, and now Mike Mussina. And you think the Red Sox are the team to beat? Add Mariano Rivera, the undisputed best closer in the American League, and you've got yourself a pitching staff that might be invincible. The Yankees are again the favorite...
...presidential campaign where the candidates were often criticized for being virtually indistinguishable from one another, there was one issue which created relatively little confusion for voters: the environment. The territory clearly belonged to former vice president Al Gore '69, who took every opportunity available to boast about his work on the Kyoto Accords, to point to his unflagging support of land preservation in the West and to rave about his "seminal work" on global warming. George W. Bush could do little than flounder in his wake, offering reassurances that paled in contrast to Gore's exuberance and which seemed irreconcilable...
...governing committee cannot yet boast a perfect record...
...then there's "breaking news." Does news really ever break? Yes, there are real events such as earthquakes, but most news consists of what Daniel Boorstin once called "pseudo-events," concocted stories that are news only because we say they are. News organizations like to boast that they "cover" the news, but in fact, we all make the news because there is no news without us. With apologies to genuine metaphysicians, if an event happens and no one covers it, did it really happen? I'd say no. We in the media give events significance by how we play them...
...unlike Robert Philip Hanssen, the alleged spy whose double life surely required even greater measures of deception, he wasn't a two-faced hypocrite. He didn't boast about being moral or a family man or that he was particularly loyal. What's so infuriating about Hanssen - apart, of course, from the simple fact that he was a traitor - is the fact that he was so sanctimonious about his patriotism, his faith and his family. Spying was his other family...