Word: circuitousness
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...bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret McKenzie (except he pronounces it "nurdy hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other hand, prefers to describe their comedy as "awkward." The Conchords are about to take flight. An album is due this year, and the two are developing a sitcom...
...expressive orator, Lewis has recently carved out a speaking circuit that has included the British Columbia Nurses' Union, the United Nations and Columbia University. With stories infused alternately with wit and heartbreak, he elicits both guffaws and gasps from his audiences. Relating one tale from his book, he described how he asked members of a community project growing cabbages how they spent their profits. "Why on coffins," they answered, almost surprised at the question. "We never have enough money for coffins...
...equal partner in a couple where you make a difference while also making loads of money and not getting indicted, if you can manage it. Both of you don't have to be famous; you just both have to have a slot in the gigantic circuit board of connections that make Washington go. Perhaps it's less a power marriage than a power-grid...
...entirely without consequence: even as the memo’s interpretations were publicly renounced, they were quietly transferred—whole paragraphs verbatim—into subsequent memos, which are still operative. As for Bybee himself, the Senate had already confirmed him for a lifetime seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by the time the torture memo was leaked. Gonzales was less fortunate in his timing, and faced numerous questions about the memo during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General. Not having authored it, however, he simply disowned it—an illuminating case study in how deniability...
...testimony before the Senate last year.Cooper declined to comment on the contents of the memo, citing Federalist Society policy to “not take any position on particular policy issues.”Bybee did not respond to requests to comment sent through the Ninth Circuit Court’s press office or to several phone calls to offices at the court. Li emphasized that his organization’s main problem with Bybee is that he has enjoyed “complete impunity” for his actions thus far.“If he will not face...