Word: grahamism
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...Sundance this year, has more going for it. Jeff Daniels plays the long-ago author of a spiritual best seller, Me and God, who's since become a recluse in the most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet movie can rouse the dormant grouch...
...decide to do this? I've always sailed. Football season had come to an end, and I was looking for something else to do. I had just read Robin Lee Graham's Dove, which is about a 16-year-old guy who set out to sail around the world in 1965. It's an amazing adventure story, and that kind of gave me a desire to get out there...
...some Republicans to elicit a hot-tempered response, the Supreme Court nominee answered every question in the same deliberate, dulcet tones that seemed to lull her opposition into, if not complacency, then at least resignation. In between grilling her on abortion and reports of her tempestuous temperament, Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, even declared: "I like you, by the way, for whatever that matters. Since I may vote for you that ought to matter...
Perhaps the harshest line of questioning came from Graham, who, citing unnamed sources in a lawyer's almanac, alleged that Sotomayor had a reputation for being temperamental. "Here's what they said about you: 'She's a terror on the bench. She's temperamental, excitable, she seems angry. She's overall aggressive, not very judicial. She does not have a very good temperament. She abuses lawyers.'" Graham recounted. "When you look at the evaluation of the judges on the Second Circuit, you stand out like a sore thumb in terms of your temperament. What is your answer to these criticisms...
...Nevertheless, others regard McNamara's legacy more favorably. Jack P. Ruina, an MIT professor who worked under McNamara as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he was a "great admirer of [McNamara's]" even though he was "a little bit like a machine." And Graham T. Allison, a former dean of the Kennedy School and now director of the Belfer Center, noted in an e-mailed statement that President Kennedy regarded McNamara as his "most valued counselor" during the potentially disastrous Cuban Missile Crisis...