Word: gored
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...Gore was able to get most people to forget the money he took from the tobacco industry and Buddhist monks by winning both the Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his work on educating the world about the dangers of global warming and other problems that affect the environment...
...Gore's problem is that in this economic climate he cannot get himself arrested even for chaining himself to the entrance of a coal-fired electrical plant. The interest in supporting policies that will improve the environment is trumped by the necessity of corporate survival. (See pictures of Al Gore's American life...
...America’s “digital brownshirts” (a term coined by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore) have “Dixie Chicked” many. But with 62 percent of Americans thinking the Iraq War was a mistake in 2006, and George W. Bush’s popularity at the close of his presidency only 22 percent, it now appears that Rene Gonzalez was ahead of his time. While many still morally distinguish Iraq and Afghanistan, Gonzalez’s majority of one in 2004 became the Democratic majority...
...theme wasn’t “Take Me to the Moon” (thank God!). But the formal’s bifurcated set up—a dance party inside the JCR with a mildly classy live band and schmooze-fest outside in the Gore Courtyard—made FlyBy feel like it was teleporting between Junior Prom and a wedding reception...
...proven to be a reliable liberal vote on the court. In 1992, he voted to uphold Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and ruled against prayer in schools in Lee v. Weisman. In 2000, he was among the four justices to side with former Vice President Al Gore ’69 in Bush v. Gore. Although his departure is unlikely to upset the court’s ideological status quo—as it is assumed that Obama will replace him with a similarly liberal justice—Souter also held other judicial notions that his successor...