Word: jabbing
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...like to add a few more parting shots before I sign off: perhaps a last jab at the Republican Congress that thinks it can cut taxes and the deficit at the same time; or a jeer at the Core program's limited choice and lack of a consistent mission; maybe even a bittersweet good-bye to the cash-strapped Undergraduate Council, which has finally taken the wise path of popular elections...
DECENCY ALERT I: After the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton made a speech urging America to tone it down. A politically motivated jab at the right? No doubt. A point worth making? That...
Dole's famously cranky wit cannot resist a jab or two. "I didn't think it would happen to me. I thought it happened only to Democrats," he quips. Less predictably, his wry remarks on this April day in 1993, 16 months after surgeons removed his prostate, eventually segue into a discussion of the side effects that keep people from seeking treatment. Despite improvements in surgical technique, the majority of patients suffer at least temporary impotence, and a few also become incontinent. "Unless we talk to each other fairly frankly, we don't learn much in these sessions," he tells...
...mysterious onset of evil in her neighborhood: "Hate came, I don't know from where." A 19-year-old from Kenya, Kim Muhota, reported that in the streets of Nairobi, children are known to wield discarded hypodermic needles (carrying God knows what viruses of doom) and threaten to jab passersby unless given money-the needles becoming grotesquely miniaturized moral inversions of the St. George lance...
...Christine Todd Whitman slashed taxes in New Jersey. On Tuesday, as the first Governor asked to give the official rebuttal to a State of the Union address, she started cutting into Bill Clinton. From a partisan point of view, she did not disappoint, starting with an off-the-cuff jab at the 81- minute speech. ``I am not going to ask for equal time,'' she joshed. But long after Clinton's speech, pundits and political operatives were still mulling over Whitman. Might this be the G.O.P.'s 1996 vice-presidential candidate...