Word: righteously
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...know I won't miss the sleaze: the selling of the Lincoln bedroom, the shakedowns of Chinese arms dealers and the after-hours frolics in the Oval Office. Nor will I miss the policies, from the self-righteous "gays in the military" gambit, to Hillary's baggy monster of a health care plan, to Clinton's recklessly risk-averse foreign policy, which conducted cowardly "virtual wars" from the skies above Belgrade and Baghdad, while coddling a tinpot dictator in Pyongyang and a collection of tyrants in Beijing. Nor, finally, will I miss the hangers-on and toadies who filled...
...choice? Don't make me laugh. This was a contest between corporate and corporate, self-righteous and self-righteous, military and military, executioner and executioner. Neither of these pandering career politicos offered our planet and our country the radical changes needed to save them. An instant-runoff voting system should be implemented by 2004 so that presidential candidates presenting a diversity of opinions can have a shot at winning. MIKE FLYNN Burlington...
...wrench is thrown into the works when brother Alec pays a visit from Columbia school of journalism. Full of righteous indignation at his family's assimilation, he tells them to shape up or ship out. Astonishingly enough, the United States government has just made Harry an offer to rat out Alec's African National Congress friends in exchange for a cushy job in the Netherlands. Harry has a dilemma: he knows South Africa is tearing his family apart, but his only way out is to abuse Alec's trust...
...incredibly annoying adolescent. From age 10 to about 16, I was sulky, snotty and self-righteous. I talked back. I smirked. I never got into any serious trouble, never drank or smoked and I did well in school. But I was a pain in the ass to live with...
...certain some BCS-lovers believe that the polls and the computer rankings underemphasize strength of schedule, that the BCS rankings are merely the righteous compensation, and that anyone who disagrees suffers from some anti-Nebraska or anti-UCLA bias. Even if this opinion is remotely accurate, none of these followers can possibly justify the inherently flawed way that the strength of schedule rankings are calculated...