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Many members of the RCA staff are fond of Aiken, if not his music, and are willing to go along with Sanders. But a healthy minority have curiously deep reservoirs of disdain for the Idol industry. One RCA executive, who insisted on anonymity, cited Idol as proof that "Americans have no taste" and described Aiken as "Barry Manilow, but with less talent." Sanders says he understands that some of his employees are "skeptical about the selection process and skeptical about selling a pop artist with no credibility." But, he adds, "I've told everyone they need to look...
...President Bush's policies: 1) You're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump me in with a crowd of Democrats he describes as "seized with a loathing for President Bush--a contempt and disdain giving way to a hatred that is near pathological." However, what I feel as the result of President Bush's policies is sadness. I'm not mad at his "revolutionizing American foreign policy" or that he exercised "a singular act of presidential will" in Iraq; I'm sad that damaged relationships...
...George W. Bush's policies: 1) you're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump me in with a crowd of Democrats he describes as "seized with a loathing for President Bush?a contempt and disdain giving way to a hatred that is near pathological." However, what I feel as the result of President Bush's policies is sadness. I'm not mad at his "revolutionizing American foreign policy" or that he exercised "a singular act of presidential will" in Iraq; I'm sad that damaged...
...been away from Harvard for a while, I hadn’t imagined he’d think the question an affront. After all, most Harvard students I know lack certain hallmarks of adulthood—financial self-sufficiency, for instance, or the ability to drink in moderation, or disdain for the Ben Stiller vehicle Zoolander. If pressed, I would define our stage of development as mid-adolescence. Being a grown-up, I’ve long thought, is something different, something removed and complicated—a state involving mortgages and full-time jobs and the ownership...
...whore ? when she gave birth she called the bastard Guinness but my father was probably the bloody cook," is a jolt. It is also the first flash of his occasional viciousness, here darkly humorous, often plain nasty. According to Read, he often treated his wife, Merula, with disdain, putting her down in public and insisting she give up her own acting career. When this led to her breakdown, he left her alone in a suite at the Ritz Hotel to get through it. His relationship with his son, Matthew, was awkward and could also be cruel - he once held...