Word: patly
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...company that uses technology responsible for powering Nazi Germany, that propped up apartheid for decades and that operates a plant with the dubious distinction of being the world's biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide. Only a die-hard optimist could talk up such a company, right? Meet Pat Davies, head of South African energy giant Sasol, and listen to him speak about its prospects. "We're coming into a sweet spot, a unique position," he says with a calm, easy smile. "We're in the lead position worldwide in what we do, and there's enormous interest...
...possess a television and a pair of eyes, you've seen the We Campaign ads. First there was a series that featured unlikely alliances, such as political enemies Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton, sitting on a couch talking about the need for conservatives and liberals to come together to solve the climate crisis...
...Tilda Swinton) and recently emerged from 20 years in the Secret Service "without ever discharging my weapon" - which is as sure a clue at the firearm of the wall in the first act of an Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid down for all their actors: "to channel your inner knucklehead...
...think Republicans are demoralized now, wait until McCain stamps the GOP label on higher taxes, tougher regulation and looser rules on immigration. The best precedent is what happened when George H.W. Bush cut a deal with Democrats to raise taxes in 1990. The result was Pat Buchanan's challenge in the 1992 primaries, followed by Ross Perot's in the general election, which together cut the Republican Party's heart out. Already Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson are unhappy with today's GOP. If McCain wins and governs significantly to the left of George W. Bush, the party's meltdown...
...course, the McCain campaign may simply realize that, when it comes to such a moving tale of personal sacrifice as the candidate's years of captivity, there is no danger of going to the well too many times. As conservative commentator Pat Buchanan remarked on MSNBC earlier this week, they keep doing it because it keeps "working...