Word: coffined
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...Abernathy thinks that although Summers had weathered many storms before, the suggestion of impropriety, and his obduracy in responding to it, was simply too much: ?This may well have been,? he says, ?the final nail in the coffin...
...number of the liberal civil rights leaders in attendance were rightfully disgruntled at Bush’s reluctance to associate with them, and, further, much of their criticism had validity to it. Still, a funeral is not a political forum, and a civil rights hero’s coffin should not serve as a convenient backdrop for Bush bashing...
...video killed the radio star,” as British band The Buggles famously sang in 1979, then online playlists might put the nail in the coffin for FM disk jockeys. “Many music fans are not content to simply listen passively to what radio DJs play,” according to Derek A. Slater ’05-’06, co-author of a report that will be released today by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Gartner Group, a research firm. Slater wrote...
...Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse of the Yellow Brick Road. Though the film is being marketed as a comedy (if one that doesn’t shy away from the occasional coffin-encased gun slinger), “The Ice Harvest” is much murkier and bloodier than the trailers suggest. It evokes both the cold moral grayness and the acerbic humor of “Fargo.”According to Ramis, the hazy blending of genres is no accident...
...MONICA CROWLEY Author, Nixon in Winter For too long this President has allowed his opponents to set his agenda. To regain control over the dialogue, he has to rally the base. No President can survive without core support. For Nixon, the final nail in the coffin was when Barry Goldwater said, There's nothing we can do for you. Bush can win back his base with his next Supreme Court choice. He should also get back to his original domestic agenda and his strengths on the foreign-policy side. He should talk about progress being made in Iraq...