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...many sports-related topics, but also often knew more about sports than just about anyone I had ever encountered. My colleagues’ analytic and encyclopedic knowledge of sports forced me to hear them out, and in the presence of such expertise, I quickly realized that my knee-jerk Boston homerism wasn’t going to cut it. I had to—and I wanted to—reconsider my opinions to make sure they actually made sense. And while many of them did, some of them didn’t.Of course, I haven’t completely...
...problems. Kennedy’s withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party’s nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers’ Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives—to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan—seem particularly key. Defense spending has long been a bete noire for the Democrats, and only recently have party leaders—including some presidential hopefuls—begun seriously backing plans for heightened military expenditures. It is time...
...lens. From Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in interdepartmental squabbles and where an unmet quorum can constitute the positive derailment of progress, international crises can present themselves as geopolitical Gordian knots: impossible to disentangle entirely and inclined only to tighten further after the overzealous jerk of careless hands...
...retrospect, it was easy to see that Clinton was desperate, willing to say almost anything to get over. At the time, she just seemed strong, certainly stronger than Obama on Meet the Press ... at least she did to me and many members of my chattering tribe. And our knee-jerk reactions - our prejudice toward performance values over policy - could infect the campaign to come between Obama and John McCain, just as it has the primaries...
...self-respecting egomaniac would put up with the enraging powerlessness of the freelance writer, totally dependent on the whims of half-literate editors for a pathetic drip-drip-drip of income. Oh, for a regular paycheck and health care, so you wouldn't have to suck up to some jerk of an editor for the next mortgage payment. ("Yes, I see. You want it to be iambic pentameter with internal rhymes. I've never read an analysis of the political situation in Pakistan done that way before. What a good idea...