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...unusually bitter retort for a man who for years has called the media "my base." Later, on the plane to Columbia, S.C., McCain trudged to Nagourney's seat, miming an exaggeratedly shamed face. His wife Cindy had sent him to apologize for being rude, he said. "A thousand pardons," he asked. But the conversation turned into another round of the same debate. McCain had said he was sorry for not calling the press corps once he knew the King show released a transcript a few hours before it aired. That's not good enough, a reporter argued, "You told...
...surprised to find the dis, “You’re a slave, I’m a white girl, don’t look at me,” as freestyled by Darryl W. Finkton ’10 in any book checked out from Widener. Its retort, “On your face I might be forced to pee… like R. Kelly” by Malcolm R. Rivers ’09 would also probably not please an Expos preceptor...
...narrow, aesthetician’s interests and idiosyncratic tastes.”The essay further accused The New Republic of employing “wholly negative methods” in its book reviews. Wood responded with an 11-page letter (later published in the third issue), which included the retort, “[n+1] had serious and sensible things to say about a certain strain of negative reviewing...but it was itself a wholly negative attack on negativity.”TAKING IT TO THE PEOPLEDespite their spattering on the page, Greif says there is actually quite...
Harrowing stuff. But what is it for, all this looking back? No doubt, Mak's obsession with recollection is enhanced by another war raging in the Balkans in the late 1990s - a sharp retort to anyone who contends that Europe had put brutality and tribalism behind it. It was Dutch peacekeepers, after all, on whom fell the shame of Srebrenica, when they failed to prevent the massacre of 8,000 Bosnians at a U.N. safe area...
When I bring this record up with Panzner, he has a ready retort. "History didn't begin in the postwar period," he says. "History didn't begin 20 years ago." Living memory includes the Great Depression, begun in 1929 and stopped only by global war; stocks didn't fully recover until 1954. The scary scenarios painted by Panzner and his ilk are not outside the realm of historical experience. What's more, they're all grounded in the incontrovertible truth that much of our economic growth of the past 25 years--and almost all the growth of the past five...