Word: lauds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...modern era of presidential campaigning, no candidate's spouse has been so purposefully absent from the scene as Howard Dean's wife, an internist and mother of two in Vermont. Some laud her independence and nonpolitical bent, while others see these as a liability. The other candidates' wives have played more traditional roles in the campaigns. A look at how involved they have been. --By Nadia Mustafa...
...right. Eda Pepi ’06, as Henry and Charlotte’s daughter Debbie, was a memorable but absurdly over-the-top sexpot. And Sam G. Rosen ’06 deserved recognition for his bit part as Billy, Annie’s lover, if only to laud his extraordinary comic rendition of a speech from John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore...
Another of the skills that many laud in Caro’s work is his passionate commitment to research. The writer actually moved south with his wife to get to the root of Johnson’s Texas hill country upbringing. With her help, he interviewed hundreds of witnesses to various events, often going back two or three times “trying to recreate the meetings that took place...
Rather than faulting them for improper developing of prints or weak “visual arrangement skills,” Moss would have been wise to laud these students for investing themselves in learning a new skill and working hard to create such impressive works in their spare time, when nobody is giving them a grade or even requiring them to attend class...
...ought to laud the HIPJ, HAC and PSLM for their conscientious advocacy, if they actually focused on their visions of social justice. Instead, these groups load their protests with demonizing references to the people and establishments they blame for the ills they are seeking to correct. The protests are not about the janitors, but about the avarice of Harvard administrators. They’re not about the Africans, but about Coca-Cola’s corporate greed. And they’re not about Iraqi civilians, but about Bush, who—like all Republicans—is clearly...