Word: bushed
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...said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole, in his convention address, repudiated not only Hillary Clinton, but Barbara Bush, when he made the silly distinction that "it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family...
...strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching a presidential campaign--became champions of abolishing affirmative action. Finally, President Clinton responded to the storm rising in California by ordering up a full-scale review of the policy, something that Presidents Reagan and Bush had refused...
Ronald Reagan was the great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this...
...profits, we have no endowment. In addition, contrary to what the article implied, City Year documented 100 percent of all its initially "questioned" expenses, and the federal government neither "forgave" nor "forced" repayments; rather, City Year returned a very small portion of funds that were provided by the Bush administration but were ultimately unused by City Year graduates...
...with support from the Bush administration, City Year was inundated with requests to join the corps and start programs in other cities. We needed expertise and experience--and Judith was top on our list. Judith left a prestigious position at Boston Foundation, put on a City Year uniform every day and worked in a dilapidated warehouse headquarters to fight for more youth service opportunities for hundreds of young people...