Word: haile
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Republican recriminations will be ugly, but McCain was probably the most electable candidate the party had: a genuine war hero with an impressive record of public service that didn't always include marching in lockstep with George W. Bush. He threw some Hail Mary passes - Palin; the "suspension" of his campaign - but he didn't have much of a choice against a Democratic tide. He was the right guy in the wrong year. If Washington Republicans decide that he lost because he was too squishy on immigration or too pro-regulation in his response to the economic crisis...
...polls to cast a ballot in his first U.S. election. "I like this fellow Obama," he said in Spanish. "I agree with my daughter that it's time for a change around here, and he seems to have a more open mind than McCain." Basurto, who doesn't exactly hail from Ecuador's lily-white élite, is also pleased by the fact that Obama will be America's first black President. "The world likes Obama better too," he adds. "I think he's going to be as popular around the world as the dollar...
...included in the movie seem as if he were giving a new speech every night. His jolly, intimate style sells every zinger to audiences who would have bought his line anyway. He's also an ad-lib adept. When one clutch of Catholic protesters recites the Our Father and Hail Mary aloud during a rally, Moore asks them, "You're not gonna do the whole rosary, are ya?" and then the more pertinent, "What did Jesus bomb?" The movie leaves little doubt that if Kerry had been half the campaigner Moore is, on Tuesday he might have been...
...They have created the sense that educated people must apologize for their educations. The only acceptable worldview becomes a dumbed-down version, and the same could become true of art. Rather than psychological or impressionistic abstraction in visual art, we might see a rise in symbols and iconography. All hail the celebration of ignorance and irrationality!In the same way George W. Bush did in 2000, country music stars who have pushed the limits on race, religion, and “patriotism” might consider a Republican victory a blank check from the Right’s majority...
...here today is I want you to understand the violence during the emergency in Kenya as a part of the colonial movement not a paradox,” said Caroline Elkins, a professor of history at Harvard and a former Radcliffe Institute fellow. The wide-ranging group of experts hail from esteemed positions in academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the military. The diverse nature of each panel gave rise to an exciting debate on the origins of colonial uprising and violence. “Its all about escalation, these grassroots movements escalate into something much bigger and more violent...