Word: lapelled
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...high school dropout who ran a business selling and repairing televisions in nearby Liberty, N.Y. But eventually he founded Cablevision, which he sold in 1996 for $2.7 billion to Time Warner. At 78, he's a venture capitalist who wears an American-flag pin on his lapel--which makes him an unlikely guy to devote himself to the legacy of a place that had a freak-out tent. But he does have a daughter who attended Woodstock (against his wishes). And another who missed out but persuaded him much later to buy the land where it all happened...
...case you missed it, Barack Obama's American flag lapel pin is back. How long it will stay on is anyone's guess...
...didn't take long for opponents and Republicans to jump on the idea that Obama wasn't as patriotic as he could be, prompting the Illinois Senator the next day to clarify his remarks. "After a while, you start noticing people wearing a lapel pin, but not acting very patriotic. Not voting to provide veterans with resources that they need. Not voting to make sure that disability payments were coming out on time," he told a crowd in Independence, Iowa. "My attitude is that I'm less concerned about what you're wearing on your lapel than what...
...condemning Obama for comments that the rest of America, outside the Beltway, knows to be essentially truthful. Why else would Obama's poll numbers have remained strong despite the fury and umbrage of those in Washington most sheltered from what the rest of the country is going through? Maybe lapel flag pins are the only story they've come to understand. Jay H. Abrams, Boca Raton...
...couple of hours, let us dream while we're awake. And it's not the worst idea to have stories that both address our intimate relationship with machines and allow us to feel good about the connection. In fact, it's downright American--not in the flag-lapel-pin sense but in the innocent summoning of the country's old virtues...