Word: cannoned
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...Former “Atlantic” writer Carl M. Cannon points out that the move cut ties as well as costs...
...When you move out of Boston to Washington, it’s inevitable that the Harvard ties will lessen,” says Cannon, a former writer for the Atlantic and current White House Correspondent for the “National Journal...
...It’s a departure from some of its recent pieces, but it’s not a departure at all from its historic mission,” Cannon says of the move to more topical articles...
...with them soon mellowed into ineffectuality in the antipodean sun, not much more than folk costume, once the chains of convictry were abolished. As a colony, we were content peaceably to fulfill our natural destiny, which was to supply Britain with cheap wheat and wool and (when required) with cannon fodder for wars against the Boer...
...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...