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...signs aren't promising. Rather than trying to push the rival parties back into real peace negotiations, Blair's mission has been defined as being to strengthen the institutions of the Palestinian Authority. To which a cynic might respond: What Palestinian Authority...
...applied to his heroes and his villains alike - he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that he could never quite suppress; he could have become a bore, but even at his most despairing he had an endless willingness to entertain his readers: with drawings, jokes, sex, bizarre plot twists, science fiction, whatever it took...
...press corps, were in the house - David Broder, Jules Witcover, Hedrick Smith, Carl Leubsdorf. It was Crouse who once described reporters as shy egomaniacs. There was nothing shy about Apple, though, and that was his greatest strength as a journalist. He was the furthest thing from a cynic; he was an utter enthusiast, perpetually amazed and gratified that he'd been allowed to spend his life savoring the feast of public life. "By his standards," Calvin Trillin said, ?nobody worked hard enough." Todd Purdum, the master of ceremonies, noted that Apple had 73 front-page stories - in just his first...
...were unified and excited.Ben M. Cuddon a GSAS first-year student in Middle Eastern studies, Nelson T. Greaves ’10, and Kristina A. Dominguez ’10 also get big laughs.But sometimes caricature backfires. Emerson senior Sara Collins’ Val, the clear-eyed, self-indulgent cynic, sings “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three,” an ode to career advancement via plastic surgery. The more honest title for the song would be “Tits and Ass,” a phrase Collins sings over and over again with annoying self-satisfaction. There...
...cynic might say Republicans - and Democrats - are rallying to Jefferson's defense out of fear, not principle. No one has suggested the top Congressional leaders have any personal interest in making sure the FBI can't search their offices. But there's no shortage of other members who might worry that once the doors to the House and Senate office buildings are opened, there's no telling whose office the feds will raid next...