Word: mckinleyism
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...smell a setup - the old governmental double-cross - don't bother congratulating yourself. We're only halfway through Act 1 of Shooter, the latest movie in the conspiracy-theory genre. Filmmakers have spun some pretty decent political nightmares out of the fear of another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point...
Foreign affairs seem particularly apt to bring out a presidential capacity for hypocrisy. Kindly William McKinley, who used U.S. troops to suppress the fledgling Philippine republic in 1898, said he had prayerfully searched his soul before deciding it was his duty to "civilize and Christianize" the Filipinos. Theodore Roosevelt, who encouraged an insurrection in the Colombian province of Panama so that he could build a canal through it, liked to consult with Attorney General Philander Knox about the legality of his various aggressions, but Knox was not the sternest of critics. "Ah, Mr. President," he asked on one occasion...
...pain and despair from Polar Bear Swim virgins were allayed by the realization that they had summoned the first real snow of the season,” Alaska Klub Co-Presidents Robert E. Furrow ’07, Olivia H. Gage ’07, and Kenneth W. McKinley ’08 wrote in an e-mail...
...Government has only the powers that the Constitution states that it has, or the states have all powers that the Federal Government does not; 6) $5.15; 7) rights that people are born with; 8) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton or John Jay; 9) Louisiana, or the Louisiana Territory; 10) Mount McKinley, or Denali
...still this warm a month from now, then we have reason to be worried.” McElroy said. “Although temperatures worldwide are generally warmer, this fall is not necessarily indicative of that and is probably just part of normal fluctuations.” Kenneth W. McKinley ’08 said he does not mind the warmer weather. “And although the sun made Saturday’s loss more bearable, I wouldn’t trade Cambridge for a slightly warmer New Haven.” Tonight’s overall low temperature...