Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama's victory was brilliant, well-earned, and a real step forward for our multiracial democracy. But heaven protect him from Gibbs and the rest of the over-the-top hallelujah chorus. America's vote will "save it"? I must have missed news of its approaching death. Obama is a "radical departure" from presidents who "were born into power or bred to it"? I guess TIME doesn't remember where Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, or Abraham Lincoln came from. And now Obama's a "prince"? Maybe you should tone it down. Let Obama...
...select just one article on the election for a time capsule, it would be Gibbs' brilliant, poetic piece. It was just what we all needed after election night to put our hopes and fears into perspective and face the day, the week and the years ahead. Congratulations. Patricia A. Hoopes, Madison, Wisconsin...
...full agreement with jakes until he wrote: "As Barack Hussein Obama places his brown hand on that black Bible ..." Neither "color" reference was necessary. Such gratuitous emphasis on racial differences will surely not help "black, white and brown" do as Jakes suggests and "melt into a brilliant depiction of red, white and blue." Rich Zettlemoyer, Gold Canyon, Arizona
...John McCain in Chicago and helped engineer a commutation for Senator Joe Lieberman, who had backed McCain in the election and faced possibly being stripped of his committee chairmanship. The general amnesty campaign, part of a promise to change the way Washington works, impressed some longtime partisans. "It's brilliant," says a senior Republican Party official. "My hat is totally off to the guy." Viewed more cynically, bringing Clinton into the tent could co-opt a potential adversary in 2012 and put a leash on her globetrotting husband, who has a propensity for foreign policy freelancing. Which raises a question...
...Malcolm Campbell Performs,” currently boasts a membership of over 300. Saxophone virtuoso Marcus G. Miller ’08 once described Campbell as “the baddest man in America.” “He’s attentive, creative, eclectic, brilliant, and inventive—the list can go on and on,” says Miller, who met Campbell after both played for a Kuumba show and performed with him many times last year. “We had a lot of great gigs for our Acoustic Tuesday series, and I really...