Word: damn
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When George Abbott unveiled his baseball musical Damn Yankees on Broadway in May 1955, a month before his 68th birthday, he almost certainly didn't expect to attend opening night of a revival nearly 39 years later. He surely didn't expect to be 106 and actively supervising revisions to his libretto about a middle-aged man who sells his soul to the devil for one glorious season as a long-ball hitter. But Abbott was more than a ceremonial presence at last week's gala. He was in the audience for previews night after night -- taking notes. Since well...
...some point you just need to apologize and damn the details," Dockham said. "Harvard needs to apologize publicly and take strong moral leadership. I think they could do that without compromising their position. Harvard needs to make its own apology...
That sounded like hyperbole, but none of the committee members were surprised. Even the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dennis DeConcini, who says he likes Woolsey better than any of his predecessors, finds him "so damn hardheaded" about the budget. The Arizona Democrat does not believe that Woolsey, a savvy Washington lawyer and defense expert, has overlooked the reduction in the Soviet threat. Rather, he suspects that Woolsey's scrappy toughness on the intelligence budget is a move to rally the agency's spies, who tend to resent outsiders, behind his leadership and the changes he has to make...
Ignoring the fact that we are doing the exact same things, one may remember that our allies, the Israelis, employed Jonathan Pollard to snatch U.S. secrets; and our close European allies, though thoroughly apprised of security issues, are masters of anti-U.S. industrial espionage. Damn the spy all you want, there is still no sense in taking umbrage at the country who employs...
...other hand, we vote to abolish, Nancy Kerrigan (open your damn mouth when you talk, will you?) and fortysomethings who refer to the Clinton as "Bill and Hillary...