Word: schmuck
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...certainly are in a pickle. Your roommate is putting you in a terrible position. He sounds like a real schmuck. Sally, on the other hand, sounds like the greatest thing since broccoli tofu with peanut sauce. My suggestion is to create a situation where Sally finds out about your roommate's evil-doings and is forced to turn to you for comfort...
...despised by his family and their friends, seemed perfect. He could become a hero by co-opting it for truth and light. The producers persuaded him to accept answers in advance by telling him how much good he was doing the cause of education with his presence. And the schmuck (to borrow a word from Herbie Stempel's lexicon) believed them...
Rabie's letter has reduced an extremely compicated issue into a simplistic, one paragraph propaganda piece. She has jumped at the opportunity to reply to Markel's "Can We Call you Al" with "No, but I'll call you Nazi, schmuck." Constructive criticism this isn't. With the present efforts being made toward peace, this name calling isn't necessary and certainly doesn't contribute to any dialogue. Furthermore, to compare the IDF to the Nazis displays nothing more than a stunning ignorance of both the Holocaust and of the Intifada...
Clinton says he won't answer any "have you ever" questions. Good policy. He has some skeletons. But he's no more of a schmuck than any of his opponents...
...heap praise and gratitude on their editors and publishers. Turow regularly does: "Jonathan Galassi ((editor in chief at Farrar, Straus & Giroux)) made recommendations that substantially improved both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof. After the way I've been treated by my publisher, I'd be a schmuck to think about going somewhere else." That is a distinct departure in an age when publishing-world loyalties have been swept away by bidding wars and the lure of big advances...