Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...automatic negative reaction, even from people with a strong party affiliation. They want humor." During the election, the RNC bought the domain name kerryoniraq.com and Crawford stocked it with a video string of John Kerry sound bites about the war, adding to it every time Kerry said something flip-floppy. It was the kind of link a Republican could send to friends who were Democrats, and they might not change their minds, but they wouldn't be offended. "And that's exactly where we try to be," says Crawford. "We want these things to be viral, and if they...
...DeLay's legal troubles and challengers forced him to "run like a freshman," Rice University political scientist Bob Stein said. On the flip side, it also enabled DeLay to spend more time campaigning. "There never was a question in my mind that Tom DeLay would lose in the 22nd district," Houston GOP political consultant Allen Blakemore said. Once DeLay stepped down from the leadership, he was free to spend more time at home visiting "every Republican Women's Club in the district," Blakemore said. Forcing DeLay out of the leadership "certainly awakened a sleeping giant in terms of campaign activities...
...fact that America’s elites today need to be as conversant in ‘Star Wars’ as they are in Stravinsky,” Kaufman says.Stevens adds on that sentiment. “These gestures towards popular culture are actually elite in a very flip, ironic way,” he says. This elite interest in the lowbrow might be seen as a new permutation of what Kaufman says el-ites did with Shakespeare during the nineteenth century.“Up until then Shakespeare was for everyone, and it was a very ribald affair...
...down, a victim, she claims, of a "cyberjihad." Muslim hackers have attacked more than 2,000 offending websites, says Zone-H.org a cybercrime monitoring group. Posting from PAJAMASMEDIA, Malkin said she had traced the attack to hackers using a Turkish Internet provider. SISTER TOLDJA comforted, "Stay strong Michelle," while SUITABLY FLIP marveled, "Very cloak and dagger. And the baddies ... actually wear cloaks and use daggers...
...their support, Summers was forced to resign. As an end to a conflict which has distracted the Harvard College Curricular Review, Allston development, and a whole host of academic endeavors, Summers’ resignation was, objectively, the best decision for the University as a whole. But there is a flip side to the Summers coin. Though they are the traits that angered Faculty members the most, Summers’ strong opinions and single-mindedness have begun the transformation of Harvard into an institution at once more dedicated to its students and more centered on cutting-edge research.Summers focused...