Word: patting
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...education bill in Framingham, Massachusetts, he used the occasion to portray Kennedy, first elected in 1962, as an agent of change. "There is not a single, solitary member of the U.S. Senate more interested in new ideas than he is," Clinton told a roaring high school audience. Clinton's pat-on-the-back occurred as Kennedy's poll margin over businessman and G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney grew to 10 points. A Boston Herald-WCVB-TV poll, conducted this week, showed 50% of the registered voters backing Kennedy and 40% behind Romney, with a margin of error of 4.9%. A month...
...Women's Athletic Director Pat Henry said no specific project has been planned...
Every once in a while Mort pulls one out that is moderately amusing. "Hail to the Chief, President Bill Clinton. Long may he waiver." But the points he scores are withdrawn when he attributes to his wife the apocryphal remark about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican Convention sounding better in the original German. It's funny--too bad we've heard it before. Meanwhile, that elderly audience keeps on laughing...
...most dangerous conservative in America? Bob Dole? Newt Gingrich? Perhaps Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan? Well, according to last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it's a man named Charles Murray...
...Pat Oppedisano, who owns Decatur Market, a "mom and pop" retail store in Arlington, says large businesses support Question 5 because they want to force small stores, like his, to close...