Word: reacting
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...attacks - appeared very old and clichéd to Obama's legion of young supporters, who were the real game changers in this year of extraordinary turnouts. That, and the fact that Democrats have been the party of government, tragically hooked on the high-minded: they don't react well to flagrant pandering or character assassination. This has been a losing position these past 40 years, and the media - like pollsters and political consultants - tend to look in the rearview mirror and pretend to see the future...
...think it’s just as if anyone else had purchased the property,” McQuaid said. “I can’t see why [local residents] would react negatively to it, we own a bunch of other properties in the area...
...would you react if John McCain asked Arnold Schwarzenegger to be his running mate? -Abdi Hussein, EVERETT, WASH.First of all, it's not going to happen because of the Constitution. I checked it out. [But] that would be a challenge. We have Barack Obama and McCain signs, driving up to our house, one on one side and one on the other...
...week. The media was hounding Rumsfeld, because a number of former generals had staged something of a revolt and were calling for his resignation. Perhaps he wanted to set up this link in his chain of denials before I left the service, or gauge how I was going to react to his position. Or Rumsfeld might have been anticipating a big political shift in Congress after the midterm November elections, which, in turn, might lead to Democratic-controlled hearings. I didn't know exactly why it happened at this particular time. I just know that it did happen...
...Joshua S. Redman ’93, the jazz saxophonist who will receive this year’s Harvard Arts Medal, as an example of an important figure with whom many students might not be familiar. Everett says that many students who hear Redman’s name will react by saying he’s a famous saxophone player, but far more will have no clue who he is. “It’s a small group of people who are knowledgeable about the music, and maybe it’s always going to be that...