Word: nixon
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...comedy-actress categories were more routine - Patricia Heaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debra Messing, yada yada yada - but it was nice to see "Sex and the City's" Cynthia Nixon nominated as Miranda for supporting, and not just Kim Cattrall for the ever-more-drag-queen-like Samantha. (But Lauren Graham, denied a comedy-actress spot for "Gilmore Girls," was robbed. Not only is she so cool and bracing she should wear a speared olive on her head, but given the rat-a-tat hour-long "Gilmore" scripts, she may well have to memorize more dialogue per episode than actors...
...beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...
...around the time of the Supreme Court's decision outlawing school segregation, and around the time that Vice President Richard Nixon recommended the use of nuclear weapons to relieve the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in what was then Indochina, Congress and President Eisenhower promulgated a bill to add the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Oppose Godless Communism with Godful Americanism. By then I had converted to Catholicism and left public school for a Jesuit school where we began class not with the pledge but with a Hail Mary--a mood setter that, like the pledge...
NEWMAN: I was pretty quiet until the Vietnam War. Then I became very active in that 1968 campaign. My highest single honor is that I was No. 19 on Nixon's enemies list. All the other actors were so jealous. But volunteerism is the best part of America. There's a much more personal kind of gluttony that exists today that didn't exist then. You can see it in business ethics...
...Aides promise a bold speech. Democrats claim Bush's corporate past gives him no credibility on this issue. The White House argues just the opposite. One official even used the inevitable "Nixon goes to China" analogy, arguing that executives will be certain to heed the guidance of one of their own. But Bush isn't likely to throw the whole book at corporate executives or board members. Vice President Dick Cheney and economic adviser Larry Lindsey have argued that regulatory over-reaction will put a chilling effect on entrepreneurial activity and keep good people from serving on corporate boards...