Word: idol
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...emigration wave you reported is not worse in France than in most other countries. Of course, there are problems - I myself am an expatriate - but the article's generalizations and overall spirit were biased. You had better investigate the extreme-right speeches of the conservatives' idol, Nicolas Sarkozy, instead of presenting him as a center-right guy. He is France's main problem. There are many French like me who will never go back if he is elected President. Romain Koszul, Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS...
...subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding clerks for rudeness and managers for incompetence. And he became an absolute idol when he carried his campaign into the privileged office of the party apparatchiks. He dismissed two-thirds of the city's 33 district party secretaries and berated officials for wearing imported watches, suits and shoes. When, in a meeting, one of them asked truculently where he bought his own shoes...
...Well, you know, people can vote for whomever they want. That's true in my election, and it's true on American Idol.' HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic Senator and presidential candidate, when asked what the U.S. can do about American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar...
...beauty of American Idol is the notion that my vote could change someone else's life for the better [April 16]. But the powers that be at Idol have gone out of their way to undermine winning candidate Taylor Hicks. My hours on the phone were rewarded last month in Nashville when Hicks delivered an emotional performance of everything from his original music to that of the Carter Family. It was the best vote I have cast in 28 years...
...November, Rudd was on a roll as he addressed Sydney's Centre for Independent Studies, whose spiritual core revolves around free markets and individual liberty. He took a cudgel to the think tank's idol, Friedrich Hayek, and his "intellectual creature" John Howard for what he termed their assault on social justice. Rudd described a modern dystopia of debt and high interest rates, materialism, childhood obesity, time pressure on families and societal anxiety about the future. "The dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued...