Word: remarkable
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...know, in today’s world, that’s a tough call to make,” my roommate would remark...
...results, however, are in. Without blogs, there wouldn't have been a Drudge Report to help speed the impeachment of a sitting President. Trent Lott, hounded by bloggers for a racist remark originally ignored by the big media, would still be Senate majority leader. Blogs played a critical part in the downfall of Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, in the Jayson Blair scandal. Blogs created a forum where Times insiders could leak and vent, where critics could ridicule and where Raines' editorship could be rattled until it was scuttled by one wayward reporter. The same...
...been survivable had Kerry not turned up, exhausted, in Huntington, W.Va., a few months later confessing that "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." Karl Rove called that comment the most damaging 11 seconds in American politics--and the Bush campaign made the remark the center of a multimillion-dollar ad blitz in the months that followed. But in trying to clarify things since, Kerry has often made things murkier and has added footnotes to his position that have boomeranged on him later...
...Even more telling than Cheney?s remark however, was the reaction of the Democratic campaign. John Edwards indignantly accused Bush and Cheney of politicizing 9/11, but that was about it. While that may be true, it?s not going to convince one voter that Kerry and Edwards could keep America safer. Kerry has to have a stronger response. It?s not like this is the first time a campaign has accused its opponent of being unsound on national security. Lyndon Johnson?s campaign pulled its controversial ?Daisy? ad, which implied Barry Goldwater would lead the nation straight into nuclear...
...July 26]. From time to time we need to be reminded of our moral responsibilities. Stewart could have avoided the scandal that enveloped her simply by taking the high road and admitting that she had made a mistake. Bruce Weinstein New York City I was outraged by Stewart's remark that "there [are] many other people that have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela." How dare she even hint at any parallels between her jail sentence and Mandela's ordeal. Her upcoming prison time has nothing at all to do with the 27 years Mandela spent locked up under...