Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this move by Giuliani to crass political analysis is to see brilliance; he won't win the artsy crowd anyway. Upstate voters, as well as the Roman Catholics across the state who often form a bloc of swing voters, will see him as protecting basic values. And Clinton must defend the art or keep quiet. Wisely, she chose the latter...
This dramatic departure from standard biographical orthodoxy has already, even before the book goes on sale this week, set off alarms, with traditionalists condemning Morris and Morris himself scheduling a blitz of appearances on the TV yack shows to explain and defend his heterodoxy. The Old Guard from the Reagan White House, who had arranged Morris' appointment as official chronicler, are all holding their breath, concerned only that their beloved President be lovingly portrayed, by whatever device. Said Ken Duberstein, Reagan's last White House chief of staff: "I'm not looking forward to it, and I don't know...
...because victimhood has its rewards. Wilkomirski won the National Jewish Book Award. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why shouldn't they make it up? They know they can get away with it. Their friends and colleagues in the academy and in radical politics will defend them...
...place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June of 2001 my brother will graduate West Point and might be sent--like...
...freshman in such a competitive field. Gill's first-place finish qualifies her and the other top-five finishers for the singlehanded nationals, which will be held at Newport, R.I., at the end of the fall. Gill won last year, so now she has ensured a chance to defend her national title...