Word: complained
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...hard to complain about a bipartisan consensus in favor of goodness. Certainly its premises are too grave to dismiss. Rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock birth are indeed appalling, as are the related rates of child abuse and neglect. Songs celebrating rape and murder are not the hallmark of a healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine...
...only the religious right that has grown frustrated with teacher-union tactics. Around the country, local officials complain about lengthy, bitter contract fights and union rules that make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. In Texas, for instance, a right-to-work state where the teachers' unions have limited clout, it could have taken 2 1/2 years to terminate an incompetent teacher until new legislation was passed last year. In New Jersey, where the New Jersey Education Association contributes more to local and state campaigns than any other organization, battles between the local school boards and the N.J.E.A. often...
...that John Kennedy has his own magazine, George, he can turn the tables on the National Enquirer. He told Oprah, no stranger to tabs herself, that after he printed an interview with the Enquirer's founding editor Iain Calder, the scurrilous Scot called to complain that he'd been misquoted...
Viewers won't shed many tears. The Republicans' Stepford convention made for a spiritless, sadly anachronistic TV show. To their credit, the TV reporters tried hard to find blemishes in the happy face being presented, searching for any stray Buchanan delegate (or Buchanan himself) willing to complain. Usually, though, the displays of journalistic independence were pointless. NBC aired a few minutes of Kay Bailey Hutchison's speech on Tuesday night, then broke away so anchorman Tom Brokaw could summarize the juiciest lines for analyst Tim Russert ("She goes on to say that 'it's time to wake up to President...
...Nelan. "No administration ever learns that you cannot find leakers. Out of sheer frustration, they bring on the FBI, but never find out who is talking, and always end up looking like fools." Besides, says Nelan, the issue is not blown secrets or damaged intelligence assets. "Government officials always complain about security when stories make them look stupid. When the Washington Times runs an exclusive article detailing Chinese missile sales to Pakistan, the Administration gets angry: official policy is to continue good trade relations with China. But if the story is true, by law the U.S. is required to impose...