Word: frayed
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...President's advisers insist that the re-election campaign has not begun and that the President will stay above the fray of politics until the last possible moment. But that is simply spin, a transparent effort to keep Bush enthroned as the regal war President for as long as possible. In many ways, the campaign that nearly failed in 2000 has never ended. When Karl Rove, the President's celebrated political strategist, drew up Bush's campaign strategy in 1998, he was thinking ahead not just two years but six, to 2004, because re-election is what defines a successful...
We’ll never know just how high the pressure may have been otherwise. Walsh was prepared to throw freshman Lance Salsgiver into the fray had Wahlberg run out of gas. Salsgiver has been prodigious at the plate this year, and although he pitched high school ball in Michigan, he has yet to throw a pitch for the Crimson...
Linus, played by the son of Mather House Master Sandra Naddaff, Benjamin Nadaff-Hafrey, is the foil to the girls’ feistiness with his calm intellectualism. Naddaff-Hafrey, the youngest member of the cast, a sixth grader and Mather House resident, always seems to be above the fray, delivering his comic lines directly to the audience. Nadaff-Hafrey also wins the dance competition among the group for his tango with Linus’ security blanket...
While the Fedayeen are the most aggressive of Iraq's popular militias, an assortment of other irregulars has been dragged into the fray. Some members of the al-Quds, or Jerusalem, Army, who show off at parades and propaganda events but lack fighting credentials, have been given rifles and mustered into action. And in many cities and towns, local Baath Party faithful, who have everything to lose if the regime collapses, have joined the fight...
Connor will be returning to Harvard after spending time working at Slate, the online magazine, as the “fray editor,” moderating the online discussion forum...