Word: orlandos
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While the rivals who vanquished him campaigned in his state, former presidential candidate and North Carolina Senator John Edwards decamped with his family to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Despite extensive behind-the-scenes conversations with the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards has yet to endorse either candidate. His politically active wife Elizabeth has also withheld her support, though she took time off from their vacation to talk to the media about how much she likes Clinton's health-care plan--and dislikes McCain's. On May 6, John Edwards plans to choose between Obama...
...light of Bill Buckley's passing, who are the remaining intellectual giants in modern American conservatism? -Orlando Gutierrez, BostonThere are a lot of very, very smart conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Michael Novak [and] George Weigal. There are a lot of very thoughtful advocates of what I would call a serious conservatism, by which I mean the preservation of the traditions of freedom and the understanding of the realities within which you have to make decisions...
...casement. The morning caressed her stomach and thighs, which, as they usually did, looked perfect. Her head ached. She could not form a coherent thought.But with consciousness came recollection, and the images of the night just past swarmed to confront her: the empty decanter of brandy, her dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could not believe that she had allowed herself to be taken in, that she had allowed him to bring her to the brink of carnal bliss, only to recoil so suddenly and retreat stupidly into the hallway.Had...
...Unconsciously, she had been running her fingers back and forth across the shell of her pet turtle, Orlando. Some months ago, in a fit of boredom, she had encrusted its shell with sapphires and peridots, moonstones and jade. Too weary to argue with her, Frederick had paid...
...Orlando did not reply...