Word: hubert
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...primaries really made America more democratic maybe we could accept them, even if they are wasteful and inefficient. But primaries aren't really democratic. The rallying cry against the evil forces of smoke-filled rooms and party machines was the infamous Hubert Humphrey nomination, when George McGovern was denied the nomination despite the public's support...
...Western attempts to keep Baghdad isolated are crumbling, Indonesia's President Aburrahman Wahid announced last week that he, too, plans to visit in the coming weeks. Neither Chavez nor Wahid can be considered influential statesmen, but their moves are in line with recent comments by France's foreign minister Hubert Védrine that sanctions against Iraq are "cruel, ineffective and dangerous...
...just sort of talk informally," says LeVake of his chats with fellow teachers. "I'd bring up things like 'Look at how complex this system is. It's hard for me to believe this all came about by chance mutations over billions of years.'" When department chair Ken Hubert asked LeVake point-blank how he planned to teach evolution, LeVake said, "I can't teach evolution." He instantly regretted it. "I said, 'Man, there's something wrong with what I just said,' because I think kids, when they go off to college...they have to know about Charles Darwin." LeVake...
...Nixon; David Stockman and Reagan; Judas and Jesus.) To be sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...
DIED. BOB SQUIER, 65, Democratic political consultant; in Millwood, Va. Squier's clients included Hubert H. Humphrey and Jimmy Carter, and his masterly political ads helped ensure Clinton's 1996 re-election (see Eulogy...