Word: papas
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...There was a similar reaction from Washington's friends when Bush suspended talks with North Korea, leaving the U.S. alarmingly out of step with its closest allies in the region. (It reportedly took the intervention of Papa Bush to get the President to relent and resume dialogue...
...with flying colors. The President quickly scaled back his tough talk when the two sides found themselves locked into a crisis that could set them on a collision course, and allowed his aides to fashion face-saving exit that kept the relationship on track. Media speculation had it that Papa Bush and some of his advisers had weighed in gently at the height of the crisis, and if this is so it is to be welcomed - after all, the advice of Bush the Elder helps counter the hawkish instincts of Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld...
...Colin Powell's upbeat assessment of the U.S.-China relationship following his weekend visit to Beijing. It appears to suggest that the Bush administration will pursue the same basic China policy as the Clinton administration did - which was, of course, essentially the same policy as the one pursued by Papa Bush...
...Kids have no sense of history; they think something was invented the first time they learned of it. So I can't say if another Jocko salutation - "Oo papa doo, and how da ya do?" - and his occasional ejaculation "Great googa-mooga!" were his inventions. Or maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...meaningful discussion. Here, it was basically four people-myself, Jennie Sullivan, Brian Schulz and Chris Wolfe. The four of us, all graduating today, marauded together, Jennie and I for the Crimson and Chris and Brian for WHRB, covering the team with equal passion. We spent countless hours over numerous Papa Johns pizzas debating, speculating, and reminiscing...