Word: commentariat
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...Bush Administration puffed out its chest like a rooster that had just enjoyed half the henhouse. But now the U.S. needs help in Iraq, and France--in the eyes of Washington--is being awkward again. That has acted as a cue for a new burst of Francophobia in the commentariat, with suggestions even that France is becoming an enemy...
...Bush Administration puffed out its chest like a rooster that had just enjoyed half the henhouse. But now the U.S. needs help in Iraq, and France - in the eyes of Washington - is being awkward again. That has acted as a cue for a new burst of Francophobia in the commentariat, with suggestions even that France is becoming an enemy...
...Wednesday's surprise makes it harder to argue that Greenspan and the Fed haven't done all they could to start the U.S. economic pulse beating again. The Street, for the time being, is all smiles, and the shocked financial commentariat (present company excepted) will have to finish their humble pie before starting to squawk anew...
...Kennedy's book, which won the Pulitzer Prize, stands up well on rereading - should, in fact, be required reading for everyone in politics and the commentariat. It might reintroduce them to the bracing idea of moral independence, the idea of telling popularity, money and the media to go to hell. Kennedy studied the behavior of politicians (Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Robert A. Taft, and others) who took profoundly principled but unpopular stands, even at the risk of their own careers...
...encomiums were overdone by a commentariat that praises freely only when it comes to bury. Gore went gently into that good night because, as New York Timesman Thomas Friedman put it, someone had "to take a bullet for the country...