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...used a medium he’d tried before in more apolitical strips—namely, attaching bizarre and irreverent speech bubbles to public-domain clip art images.The first strip targeted the official title of the American military operation in Afghanistan, with a clip-art businessman shouting a phrase that is now well-known to the strip’s fans: “Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom To Bomb The Living Fuck Out Of You is in the house!!!” Still produced with a direct simplicity, GYWO features roughly a dozen clip-art illustrations of nameless...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revolutionary Stripper | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...running for anything—yet,” Pataki insisted, when one audience member prefaced a question with the phrase, “if you were elected...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pataki: 'Yale is Going to Crush Harvard' | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...jabs from late-night comedians by saying, "Let them laugh at me. I am going to be their President." On the trail in 2006, as the doubters were calling the Democrats a permanent minority, my mother repeated her mantra: We have better candidates. When anyone used the tired phrase, "Where are the Democrats?", she explained that everything was going exactly as planned; she was like a submarine on a stealth mission to take back the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Mother, My President | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...curious phrase “San Francisco values” has become a political epithet. But what exactly does it mean? Are there actually values specific to San Fancisco...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten | Title: Pelosi’s Value | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

Rudolph is getting his neighbors to teach him their language. He picks it up one phrase at a time. He wrote his mother, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., that "Kyfa ta Kool," which he spelled out phonetically, means "How do you say ...?" Sometimes the other inmates are eager to communicate with Rudolph, other times they are "sulking or buried in some Arabic hell of depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bomber Row | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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