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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush still breaks out the rhetorical ball peen hammer when he can, of course. He stubbornly dodged questions about the Sept. 6 attack by Israel on suspected nuclear weapons sites in Syria and, when pressed, shot back at persistent reporters, "This is not my first rodeo." Asked what his definition of torture is, he repeated the now near-meaningless assertion, "We don't torture." On diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program, he said he had told third countries, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's New Shades of Gray | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...annoying self-esteem boosting fashion. The downs involve her navigating the pitfalls of Dupont’s social scene, including a particularly harrowing libidinal run-in with Hoyt Thorpe, in which Wolfe uses words like “mons pubis” and “ball-peen hammer” to describe genitalia...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

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