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They’re words that have, over the course of a century of football, become an unmistakable part of the sport’s vernacular. But in recent seasons, the phrase all but disappeared from Cambridge, prompting confusion on those few occasions it was muttered, as if spoken in a foreign tongue...
...phrase this the right way,” he said. “It was for the desecration of the Yale symbol on the football field...
...candidates themselves--seemed less important than the swarming field of outside players who gave this election season its unusual intensity. Bloggers, 527s, get-out-the-vote teams--these are the people who made the campaign a free-for-all, in the best and the worst senses of the phrase. The candidates churned out position papers that not many people read. But Michael Moore made a movie that a lot of people saw. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made an ad campaign--a lot of people saw that too. Al Franken pulled up to the microphone. Ann Coulter took...
...Kerry didn't know his own mind. The Bush campaign had been pushing the story line since the Democratic primaries, but it was given neon prominence when Kerry's own remarks ratified the Bush message. In March, Kerry uttered what Bush adviser Karl Rove had called the most deadly phrase in politics: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," said Kerry about his vote against supplemental funding for the war. The trap looked foolproof: If Kerry defended his vote, that would seem to be at odds with his four-day convention attack...
...with 100 colleges. Damon was echoing his teammates' mantra: they were playing a kid's game, they were having fun, but they were also going to "grind you out." "We try to eliminate the thinking and let our natural abilities take over. So I think that's why the phrase about the idiots kind of took off," Damon explained. "But we don't think. If we use our brains, we're only hurting the team...