Word: hooverism
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...find out how that contest is going until January 31, the next Federal Election Commission filing deadline for presidential candidates. Early word has Obama looking surprisingly good on that front (he recently attracted the help of ex-Kerry '04 national finance director Lou Susman, known as "the Hoover"), whereas those lesser candidates will be looking to make the most of what's called "free media" - that is, publicity stunts. I understand there's a slot on Oprah's schedule that's free...
Agustina, like Alexander, sat me down at a special desk and insisted I take a bottle of branded water. Then she showed me hundreds of swatches that ran the gamut of self-consciously bizarre names, from Bitched From the Start (a Patti Smith lyric) to Adlai Stevenson. (J. Edgar Hoover is not the gayest pattern in the store; that would be Curaçao.) After considerable deliberation, I went with a pink-and-blue stripe called Equal Rights in a single-button cuff and a dark black-and-blue pattern called Levev in Napoleonic style...
...fellow at Stanford’s public policy research center, the Hoover Institution, and former senior policy analyst for the Reagan administration, D’Souza has often generated criticism from the left for his controversial views, including his critique of affirmative action and his defense of colonialism and slavery [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...news article, "D'Souza Defends Torture," inaccurately described Hoover Institution fellow Dinesh D'Souza's views on slavery. He does not defend it; in fact, in his book "The End of Racism," he writes: “Whatever its functional relevance in a world utterly different from our own, slavery was a moral crime. People should not own other people...
...most emailed stories on the Web last week reported that junior-high boy students do better when taught by a man, and girl students do better when taught by a woman. Here was a magic-bullet explanation for The Boy Crisis from Stanford's Hoover Institute: the boys are lacking because 4 out of 5 teachers are women...