Word: foremost
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...only connection I felt to Irwin was that we were both fathers and husbands. So, like many people, I first thought about his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son Bob. Irwin was foremost a family man. His working life-or that part of it open to public view-was enmeshed with kin, three generations of the clan riding in the Team Irwin prime mover, sharing the same passions and one another's company. But the genuine shock and sadness of parents and kids as the news spread in my children's playground after school last Monday told me that Irwin...
...telephone call that announced the ban of Iran's foremost independent daily, Shargh, came late this morning. "I have good news for you," said Mohammad Atrianfar, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, putting the receiver down and taking a calm sip of tea. "We've been shut down." I happened to be in his office at the time, waiting to talk about Iran's nuclear confrontation with the West. Shargh has bravely broadened debate here about the issue, publishing critics of the government's hardline stance and informing Iranians that such radicalism carries high costs. The closure, suggests Atrianfar...
...that doesn't sound annoying yet, it will soon. At his first meeting with reporters after returning from the five-week August recess Tuesday, for example, House majority leader John Boehner opened by saying, "We are going to continue our focus first and foremost on security, whether it is national security, homeland security or border security. I think the American people want to know that their safety and security needs are being addressed and Republicans have made and will continue to make that our number one priority." The Democrats, not to be outdone, have chosen as their constant theme this...
...That's bad news also for the Bush Administration, whose fantasies of leading an Arab front against Hizballah and Iran collapsed under pressure from Arab allies - Lebanon foremost among them - for an immediate cease-fire. The U.S. suffered diplomatically for its support of Israel's campaign - and may have made its work in Iraq that much more difficult - and was forced to settle for something less than the emphatic victory over Hizballah it had expected...
...millennium dawned, and his spirit was still not stilled. Foremost among the artifacts was The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Sourcebooks, 2002) by Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover, a comprehensive, smartly written overview of Lenny's mixture of "black music, white powder and blue comedy" legal troubles; the book comes with a 74min. CD, narrated by Nat Hentoff and featuring many of Lenny's most notorious bits. In fiction, Jonathan Goldstein's Lenny Bruce is Dead is mum about its putative subject, but as a free-form monologue it's firmly in the Bruce tradition...