Word: recent
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...head. I stare at a middle-aged white guy with an angry grin aiming a '38 at my face. "They're gunning for you," reads the tag line on the page--an ad for the Virginia-based campaign consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. In light of the recent imbroglio over gun control in the house, Jamestown promises to "turn those bullets into blanks" for GOP. candidates who will campaign against those nefarious Democrats...
Brand said he hopes to expand the program's recruiting efforts and bring a new work ethic to the team, which has struggled in recent years. Last season the men finished 1-8 (0-5 Ivy), while the women posted a slightly more impressive 9-3 (3-3 Ivy) record...
Writer-Director Francis Veber has repeatedly insisted that The Dinner Game is founded in reality: at some point in the fairly recent past, Parisian sophisticates took to hunting down idiots, issuing straight-faced dinner invitations to them and then awarding a prize to the swell who brought the most excruciating bore to the party...
...highest just after he has announced his decision to withdraw from the race. The other is that sooner or later every Administration makes us nostalgic for the Administration that preceded it. You can imagine how gratified I am to have seen both my laws demonstrated in recent days. I'm beginning to understand the little buzz that Einstein must have felt when year after year the universe seemed to be steaming along just the way he said it would...
...Kennedy in September 1997. George profiled entertainers; it gave bylines to headline-grabbing political figures like Alfonse D'Amato; it asked Claire Danes and Denis Leary what they would do if they were President. Yet it also hired noted journalists and essayists to write long, earnest pieces, like a recent report on the environmental legacy of the pork industry. Even the magazine's political writing, however, has tended to emphasize personality over issues. While George may have been correct in identifying politicians as celebrities, that trend was hardly a blessing for political discourse...