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...John Murtha, the gruff former Marine and Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the Appropriations Committee's defense panel, expressed wonderment that anyone would believe what the Pentagon has to say about its coffers running dry. "Because the Pentagon says it, you believe it?" he asked a reporter at a November 20 press conference with Obey. "Go back and look - 'Mission accomplished,' al-Qaeda connection, weapons of mass destruction, on and on and on, and you believe the Pentagon?" He calls the Pentagon's alarmist warnings "Rumsfeld-like," which is perhaps the ultimate insult in Washington today...
...thought if we made you a nice offer you’d come,” said former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Roland G. Fryer, then a 25-year-old then-graduate student, says he was still considering the offer when Summers, in his trademark gruff style, barked, “Well, what are you waiting for?” Fryer decided to take the offer...
...white walls and guard towers of the hilltop Sheikh Abdullah military barracks are clearly visible from the home of Sheikh Sobhi Toufeili. As one of the founding fathers of Hizballah and its first secretary-general, the gruff 60-year-old cleric knows the barracks well - during the turbulent 1980s, it housed fighters from his organization and a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as several Western hostages, including William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut who died in captivity. But that was then...
...continued to be moments from a Kids in the Hall “Bad Doctor” skit. My freshman year I woke up with a big enough tummy-ache to warrant my first visit to UHS. The nurse on duty was a Danny DeVito look-a-like, whose gruff voice and flip-pad made him look more like a cop than a caregiver. He grunted and cleared his throat to speak. I waited for my Miranda Rights...
...doctors have specialties, but it shouldn’t take the trained professionalism of a psychologist to treat patients with respect. Sure there are mental health services right upstairs, but is it too much to ask for something in between the gruff cop and the Buttsavitch? Something that is not quite the whispering receptionist for the psychiatrists on the fourth floor, and not quite the callous Urgent Care...