Word: dicks
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...wonder we're spellbound by Dick Cheney's hunting accident, despite the fact that no one died and the responsible party apologized (though not, perhaps, as promptly as he might have). It may be a small story in an age of big ones - an odd minor scene in history's bloody pageant - but if you let it sink down inside your mind and resonate there for just a little while, you have to confess that it?s potent, mythic stuff...
...Monday, the day before Harry Whittington suffered a minor heart attack from Dick Cheney?s birdshot, his big concern was not his own health but the image of Texas hunting left by the incident. Speaking in a raspy voice while sitting up in a chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just...
...Democratic Senate Campaign Committee issued a cheeky research paper on Wednesday headlined "Cheney and the Bunker of Secrecy," opening with the observation that Bush "said he chose Dick Cheney to be his running mate because he was a 'straight-shooter,' " and pointing out all the times over the years that Cheney has resisted the release of information. The Vice President now has yielded to a Beltway rite - the big interview with a carefully chosen star journalist. So far however, in keeping with his refusal to play by the usual rules, he has resisted the typical next step - begging for forgiveness...
...making him one of the first Jews to come here after they lifted the “Jewish quotas,” and one of the last to come here before President Lowell started using other techniques to crack down on our cheating kind. My great uncle Dick once told me about how he was in Expos with Henry A. Kissinger ’50. “He was a real first-class jerk; thought he knew everything,” says stoic old Uncle Dick. My paternal grandfather helped lead a petition in 1938 to get Harvard...
...hunting mishap that involved Vice President Dick Cheney took a more serious turn this afternoon. But it won't be clear just how serious until some key questions are answered...