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...principles or hold his tongue to please his party. He was also, at his core, still the rowdy, runty, red-tempered plebe who finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy despite an IQ of 133. McCain became a symbol in 2000 of courage and candor. Few took close looks at his policy positions. It was almost enough to get him the Republican nomination...
...commitment to adopt this [pledge],” Kerry said. “And any university with a multi-billion dollar endowment such as Harvard has an even greater responsibility.” Students who attended the event said Kerry’s speech was refreshing for its candor. “He was very frank about how the politics surrounding climate change have unfortunately frustrated good policy,” said second-year law student Andrew A. Friedman. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...head that I find simply impossible not to say, and then all sorts of chaos breaks out. But I think it's much better that way than endlessly prerehearsing, sanitizing, homogenizing, pasteurizing everything you say to the point of macrobiotic extinction." Some voters will be charmed by such candor. Others will question his suitability to speak for London. But win or lose, Johnson is already performing a public service by making Britons laugh...
...This is old-school politicking, and the reviews are old-school too. Audiences admire McCain's attitude and candor. They often call him a "national treasure...
...Hayden and his senior Iran analysts briefed President Bush on the new NIE on Wednesday, Nov. 28. But it seems apparent the President made little effort to figure out how his Administration could leverage the shocking candor of the intelligence report to his advantage in dealing with Iran. "He could have said to the Iranians, 'This document shows that we're not rushing to war. We're not out to get you,'" said Kenneth Pollack, a National Security Council staff member during the Clinton Administration and author of The Persian Puzzle. "'But we - and the rest of the world...