Word: commentating
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Last week, President Barack Obama hosted a friends and family seder in the White House's old family dining room. And the unleavened event was led by none other than one-time Harvard Dems President Eric P. Lesser '07. Lesser, who could not be reached for comment, is currently a personal aide to Obama adviser David Axelrod. During the campaign, he served as a ground logistics coordinator (read: baggage handler...
...online log, the suspect is “a zealous advocate for patient’s rights and makes statements critical of the care provided by these hospitals.” No arrests have been made in the case so far, according to Estrada, who declined to comment on the details of the investigation. Although hazmat teams were deployed to Beth Israel to collect one of the suspicious letters, the hospital did not evacuate or suffer any disruptions in service, said Michael Keating, a spokesman for the hospital. Keating declined to comment on whether the hospital had experienced similar threats...
...religious advocates, led by Catholic health-care organizations, hoped to have some input into the Administration's eventual decision on the HHS rule. They submitted proposals during a 30-day comment period that ended at midnight on Friday. And they were encouraged earlier this week when the director of Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Joshua DuBois, repeatedly stressed that the White House wanted open communication and feedback from religious leaders...
...White House, however, has strongly hinted to abortion-rights advocates that the comment period was merely a formality and that Obama is expected to rescind the rule as early as next week. That has some religious leaders privately grumbling about whether their input is welcome only for those topics on which they agree with the White House. Joel Hunter, an Evangelical pastor and member of Obama's faith advisory council, told the Washington Post that reversing the rule would be "one of those things that kind of says, 'I knew it. They talk about common ground, but what they want...
...previous eras, an ability to defend your opinions in conversation was essential to your intellectual survival. Now, discussion tends to sound something like this comment I found on an online forum: “THAT WHAT’S WRONG WITH KIDS THESE DAYS.THEY SEE ALL THIS SEX ON T.V AND LEARN FROM IT.IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE SEX ON EVERY CHANNEL.EVEN CARTOONS ARE SEX AND FOUL LANGUAGE.KIDS ON CARTOONS ARE TAKING OFF THERE CLOTHES. WE TELL ARE KIDS NOT TO DO SOMETHING.BUT WHEN THEY WATCH T.V. THEY SAY HOW COME ON T.V THEIR DOING...