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...Lindgren’s e-mail contained only “lists of anti-Bellesiles academics who could be called for quotes, along with their contact information, and suggestions about how the story [on Arming America] should be written.” But Wiener’s brazen decision to flout journalistic standards is unseemly—if not unethical...
...advice of most strategists was, Say nothing, and if you must say something, be neutral or at least soothing. Only California Republican Bob Dornan, who has nothing to lose, was brazen: "I think it was a racist decision." Pat Buchanan, the candidate many say is the product of white anger, stoked that resentment: "I don't respect the verdict because I think it was wrong." Bob Dole was empathic: "It is very important at this time that we use all our energies to find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe...
...Syria was involved, the move would represent an act of uncharacteristically brazen recklessness on the part of a regime instinctively cautious in matters involving its own survival. Syria had reportedly been directly warned by both France and the U.S. in recent weeks to refrain from intervening in Lebanese politics in the run-up to May's elections. Now, it has become the focus of discussion in response to the Hariri killing at the UN Security Council. If Damascus had no hand in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, then it has an overwhelming interest in finding the real killer as soon...
...excruciating bind. While he needs to move fast to accommodate Israeli demands, he also risks reprisals from his own people that could cost him his job and very possibly his life. No sooner had Abbas agreed to a cease-fire last Tuesday than Palestinian militants staged two brazen attacks. First they fired mortars and rockets on Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. Then 300 gunmen from Hamas and the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades staged an assault on the Saraya, the main prison and Palestinian Authority military base in Gaza City. In response, Abbas took his boldest step yet to assert...
...Lyrics like “A piece of brain in my hair / The wheels are melting” from the album’s lead single, “Don’t Save Us From the Flames,” are whispered against a howling guitar hook with brazen unsubtlety...