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...first-generation Irish-American homemaker, Cahill attributes her bossiness to being the eldest of six children (three boys, three girls) and says she honed her political reflexes at a dinner table at which "you were expected to have an opinion and you were expected to be able to defend it." When the Roman Catholic Church ordered Father Drinan and all other priests out of politics, she stayed on doing constituent work and organizing campaigns for his successor, Barney Frank, and then went on to a string of political jobs that included a stint running EMILY's List, a fund-raising...
...long time, and we have a similar sense of humor, but [to Stiller] you're pretty sensitive to stuff. Sensitive to me. On the Zoolander DVD commentary, they start slamming the way I look, saying "What's the deal with his nose?" And I could hear Ben try to defend...
...credibility gap; it's a credibility chasm bigger than the Grand Canyon. It started when Bush campaigned as a "compassionate conservative," escalated the day he claimed victory in the 2000 presidential election; rocketed off the charts as he took the oath of office and promised to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution; and has continued unabated. CHRIS FINNIE Boulder Creek, Calif...
After fighting a massive war to topple a dictator half way around the world, the Administration proved unwilling to defend a fragile democracy in its own backyard. It would hardly have required a massive military undertaking—as Rangel explained, “All we had to do was to send 200, 300 troops over there and tell those people to put down the arms.” The Administration’s inaction is already breeding considerable cynicism. “The problem for Haiti is that it’s not oil-rich,” said...
Keith, 42, knows that during the course of his various feuds, he has become a caricature. "In trying to defend yourself all the time, you end up looking pretty simple," he says, adding, "I'm not the banger of the war drum people think." Even though his new album title is a horrible pun on "shock and awe" and he included yet another anti-Taliban song, Keith describes himself politically as "an extremely conservative Democrat," and has expressed ambivalence about the motivations for the war in Iraq. Still, he doesn't mind his more-hawkish-than-Rummy image. "Most people...