Word: cheerfulness
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...over me, a black man from Chicago who went to Harvard (sound familiar?) stole my dream. But a strange thing happened to me as I watched Barack embark on his historic journey to the White House. Since he first announced his candidacy, I could not help but cheer for him because even though I would have to sacrifice my own dream, it would mean the dreams of so many others would be fulfilled. In my mind, only one question remains: “Has there ever been a black Secretary of Agriculture...
...band, the loudest part of the crowd, even began chanting, “we can’t hear you,” at one point during the first period, mocking the lack of Harvard fans and the meager attempts of several of Harvard’s students to cheer on their team...
Fleming divided his supervillains into two categories: the bon vivant industrialists whose good cheer hid wicked intentions, and the sneering, solitary madmen plotting universal suffering like a sick nerd in his basement. They were alike though in being chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming...
...Harvard faithful will cheer on a highly anticipated and hyped class of freshmen new to Cambridge...
...between upscale business types who want government out of the way and pro-government conservatives who want Washington's help. If Obama moves forcefully to restore economic order, the Wall Street Journal will squawk about creeping socialism, as it did in F.D.R.'s day, but many downscale Republicans will cheer. It's these working-class Reagan Democrats who could become tomorrow's Obama Republicans - a key component of a new liberal majority - if he alleviates their economic fears. (See pictures of former Presidents Clinton and Bush...