Word: feds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that the G.O.P. may still be so hooked on appealing to white resentment that it won't change course, because a lot of blacks are fed up with the Democrats. Black turnout was low in some states during the midterm elections because few Democrats offered bold alternatives to Bush's economic and international policies. We noticed that it was Republican conservatives like Charles Krauthammer--not leading Democrats like Senate leader Tom Daschle--who offered unprompted condemnation of Lott's praise for Thurmond's Dixiecrat presidential campaign. Daschle initially accepted Lott's half-hearted apology, adopting a tougher stance only after...
...book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers for Clockers. In preparation for that book, he dropped into the lives of people--narcs, druglords, ghetto mothers--who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced and abandoned," he says...
...power play—third-best in the nation behind Harvard and No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth—looked to make one last run in the final seconds of Ruggiero’s penalty. But sophomore winger Nicole Corriero stole the puck in the neutral zone and fed Ruggiero coming out of the box. Ruggiero walked in easily and scored untouched for the 3-0 lead...
...last weekend, Dartmouth coach Dave Faucher committed his defense to stopping Harvey and the rest of the Harvard backcourt, instructing his forwards to cheat off their inside assignments to help out on the Crimson guards. That strategy backfired, as Harvard’s guards simply fed the ball into the post behind the Big Green’s hedging forwards for easy layups underneath. The biggest beneficiary of Faucher’s game plan was Sigafoos, who tallied a career-high 24 points...
...tale he tells is astonishing - but what really astounds is Ferguson's glowing praise. Contemporary historians routinely decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates it for dragging the world into the modern age. As an economist, Ferguson is particularly good at explaining how the assets seized by Elizabethan buccaneers fed, in the 18th century, the habits of an emergent consumer society hooked then as now on sugar, coffee and tobacco; how Britain evolved a system of national debt to build a vast navy; how the East India Company's ports and forts seeded a global system of trade - which...