Word: simpsonitis
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...compliment or a jab, but five months later, while Kennedy was vacationing in the Caribbean, President-elect Bush phoned him and sounded him out about working together on education. Kennedy liked the idea. On Jan. 20, during a congressional lunch after the Inauguration, Kennedy got former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, a conservative friend, to take him over to Bush's table for a chat. "Mr. President," Simpson said, "here's Ted Kennedy, the orneriest s.o.b. in this place. But if he tells you he's going to stick, he'll stick...
...Carole Simpson, an Emmy Award- winning senior correspondent for ABC News, said that her experiences have taught her that “news costs too damn much...
Since the arrival of cable television, Ms. Simpson said that the national networks were losing watchers fast, and “the bean-counters became involved.” The network programs are “now in the fight of their lives,” and because of that, they reach out to the viewers’ interests like health and aging while neglecting race...
...called “Rolodex problem” was something that Simpson said she observed at ABC News and got together with others to create a list of minority experts. “Change can be affected when people of color come together,” she said...
DEFINING MOMENT The latest Oxford English Dictionary has a new batch of entries, among them Homer Simpson's famous...