Word: remarkable
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...President to fire anybody in the White House ("That's up to the President"). When asked by a reporter if Reagan's staff had been coaching the President to lie to the press and the American people, Nunn stopped the squalid inquiry: "I would not associate myself with that remark." Time after time as his comment was sought, Sam Nunn thought first and foremost of the nation: "We all have a stake in the credibility of the President, whether we are Democrats or Republicans. I'm hoping that credibility will be restored as quickly as possible...
...awkward position because Blair said a number of things, and [his presumed successor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon] Brown. They said Europe can't work without this new constitution. They said we needed a great battle in the United Kingdom - "Let battle be joined" was Blair's remark - and we're going to have a referendum. It's intensely embarrassing for them now. The last thing they want is for this constitution to come back and for there to be a referendum. But they're having to eat all their words, and it's the Conservative Party that...
...year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to expunge have swept back into power in presidential elections all over Latin America - including Chile, where socialist Michele Bachelet now rules. As a result, pundits from Mexico City to Buenos Aires are sure to remark in their obituaries that the left wouldn't be enjoying such resilient support in the region if it were not for the reactionary excesses of figures like Pinochet that pockmark Latin American history like blood-soaked epaulettes...
...talk about. Disabuse me of my ignorance! Don’t let me get away with anything,’” Colbert said. “Be real—that’s the best thing you can do.’” He remarked that only “about half” of the interviewees successfully meet that challenge. He also said that his “most challenging” BKAD interview was one he conducted with Rep. Barney Frank ’61, D-Mass., in October 2005. During the interview...
...childhood was happy and contented. The son of a doctor with the London Missionary Society, Peake was born in Kuling, China, in 1911 and lived there until he was 11 years old. As a boy, he learned 600 basic Mandarin characters from a Chinese calligrapher, causing later observers to remark on the strange way he held his pen. After his family returned to England, Peake finished his education at Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools...