Word: flak
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...going negative, Mrs. Bush is listening to her inner flak. First it told her she was going to have to do more than recite the guest book from Blair House. Now it's telling her to endure a promotional tour that would tax a stand-up comic pushing her new fall series. David Letterman went very easy on her, but she got testy when he didn't want to let her labor the point that George Bush (she always refers to him in the third person) had once worked in the private sector, unlike a certain President from Arkansas. Letterman...
White House wannabe catches flak for slam of Clinton Korean elegy...
...aside, I should mention that any student who is a self-proclaimed socialist (to those who subscribe to Peninsula's lexicon, a "socialist" is everyone who is to the left of Peninsula on the political spectrum, including George Bush) will receive much more flak at Harvard than most conservatives. Remember that the basics of economics are taught by a former Reagan advisor here at "liberal" Harvard...
...flak for it," Lo says. "Theradicals did not respect...
...House counsel, he has shown mainly a talent for getting in trouble. He drew a reprimand from the White House last summer for appearing to make political use of the FBI by calling in the G-men to investigate the White House travel office. He has been taking heavy flak for the strange anomaly of a White House staff peopled largely by aides whose legal right to roam its corridors is questionable. A third of the 1,044 employees have never received permanent passes attesting that they have passed security clearances -- largely, higher officials say, because Kennedy has failed...