Word: kumbaya
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...workaday rebuilding tasks, but for now they are needed in those roles. "This job takes someone who can stand up in front of 60, 70, 80 people screaming at you," says Lieut. Colonel P.J. Dermer, a civil-affairs officer in Baghdad. "The military adds a bit of backbone. The Kumbaya part comes later." Captain James Ogletree, a Marine civil-affairs officer in Karbala, says his units are carrying out orders that come directly from Bremer's staff. "They will say, 'See how many orphanages there are in the city and what they need,'" says Ogletree. "Basically, Marines who pull triggers...
Winthrop House authorities weren’t too pleased with the change from their “kumbaya folk music” to the harder edged sound, and the group was relegated to the practice rooms. But even there, they are occasionally shut down when they overpower the sound-proof walls, and long for a space that is compatible with their needs
...Bauer--never the Kumbaya-singing type to begin with--is in a far darker place, which is right where Sutherland, 35, wants him. Over an Atkins-y lunch at New York City's W Union Square Hotel (burger, medium rare; hold the bun), he says, "I wanted him to be very cold. I wanted him to be very hard. I wanted him to be mean...
...more realistic observer. As he remarks, "When I set out on this journey, I believed ... the Great Abrahamic Hope was an oasis in the deepest deserts of antiquity, and all we had to do was track him down and his descendants would live in perpetual harmony, dancing Kumbaya around the campfire. That oasis, I realized, is just a mirage." The sober understanding Feiler ends up with, however, is a more realistic basis from which to seek reconciliation...
...paying people with time on their hands to do what they might do anyway. In 1997 House majority leader Dick Armey called AmeriCorps a "welfare program for aspiring yuppies," and Senator Rick Santorum described it as a sweet deal for those "picking up trash in a park and singing Kumbaya...