Word: bushed
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Generally, however, Adams says her experiences with professors were positive, identifying Douglas Bush and Efo Matheson as particularly influential...
...shot down in the end, Grobmyer made bridge-building history: his project combined Baker, the firm's counsel; Alex Copson, a sometime bass player with the British rock band Iron Butterfly; and Dan Murphy, a retired admiral who had held top jobs in the CIA and the Bush vice presidency. Grobmyer's plan was heard far and wide: it reached Clinton twice by letter, and it landed in offices as high as Deputy National Security Adviser Nancy Soderberg's. In fact, it so consumed White House aides that the relentless Grobmyer was dubbed the "pitchman" by an insider...
...making a big mistake?" he asked the deputy chief of correspondents. An odd question to put to one's new boss, but then Duffy has never been a stickler for convention. Working first in TIME's Washington bureau as Pentagon correspondent, then as a political reporter covering both the Bush and Clinton presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred...
Molly Ivins once said, with respect to the elder George Bush, that no one is a true Texan who uses "summer" as a verb. If summer drives you away from where you live, your roots are indeed suspect. If it doesn't, though, and you live in Texas or any other state south of Maine, the only verb you use for three months of the year is buried in the contraction "innit," as in "Whee-ooo, innit...
Image: George Bush, globe-trotting foreign-policy President; Bill Clinton, domestically focused stay-at-home President. The reality, however, is that homeboy Bill has flitted about almost as much as cosmopolitan George. And with his first visit to Latin America last week, Clinton surpassed his predecessor. But in the First Lady frequent-flyer contest, peripatetic Hillary wins by many a mile over Barbara Bush, who was a veritable domestic shut-in. A comparison of the foreign trips each has headed...