Word: friendships
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boggled by Clinton, impressed and appalled by him. The only real differences we had in 30 years of friendship were over his treatment of both Clintons, which I thought was occasionally too sharp - and had its roots, I believed, in the strict lessons about sex and probity he'd learned from the nuns (which he often joked about). Our last conversation, sadly, was an argument over that...
...asked not to be named says he believes the M.I.L.F. is helping Abu Sayyaf in hopes that the unrest it stirs will help their cause. M.I.L.F. spokesman Eid Kabulu denies any formal links between his group and Abu Sayyaf, but says terrorists could still call on ties of friendship and family: "There might be some individuals who these people are close to or have a relationship with, and who they're in some way able to exploit...
Many of his more than 50 films depicted the rebirth of Italy in the wake of World War II, a theme that director Dino Risi explored with nuance, carefully balancing tragedy and humor. With his breakout film, 1962's Il Sorpasso, about the unlikely friendship between a law student and a gregarious con artist, Risi became one of Italy's most accomplished directors, earning two Oscar nominations for 1974's Profumo di Donna, the tale of a blind war veteran able to distinguish women by their perfume. It was remade in 1992 as Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino...
...material for swift-boating this year is already apparent. There is Obama's loony pastor, his friendship with a former radical, his dealings with a convicted financial sleaze. McCain's friendship with a woman lobbyist is an issue the New York Times fumbled, but it could resurface. McCain was one of the Keating Five, tied to a financial and influence scandal from the early '90s that could be brought down from the attic. And there is his alleged bad temper, a potentially legitimate issue that could be blended with his age in unsavory ways...
Obama's association with ayers and Dohrn wouldn't matter except that, along with his friendship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it says something larger about the political environment from which he springs. Chicago is a troubled city. Why would American voters want its way of political life brought to the country at large? We're not just electing a President; we're electing the people around him too. Mark Richard, COLUMBUS, OHIO...