Word: slating
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...that we have a candidate for President who says what he really means. Americans in the heartland of the country are sick and tired of Washington's Beltway-speak. Dean addresses issues like health care and aid for higher education. He is a bright light in an otherwise dim slate of candidates. And by the way, not all of Dean's supporters are young. I am a 63-year-old grandmother who has given money to a candidate for the very first time. Marian Kunetka Fayetteville, U.S. Spy vs. Spy Re your report on John Le Carr?'s new book...
...trying alternatives that might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror...
...Director Daniel R. Glickman introduced this spring’s new slate of resident political gurus at a press conference held yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government...
...officer and Dean supporter, Schmidt volunteered for the campaign here this week. But Schmidt noted that Dean had decided to bypass last night’s slate of primaries and look ahead to Michigan and Washington...
...comments, of course, are a refreshing departure for a man, who as Slate's Fred Kaplan notes, had mastered the art of building castles out of thin air, artfully choosing his words to allow administration sound-bite authors to imply that WMD evidence was imminent. Kay did, of course, do his former employers the service of trying to pin the blame for going to war under false pretenses onto the CIA. That seems to be the White House fallback position, too, although Press Secretary Scott McClellan gamely suggests that Kay's conclusion may be "premature" - in other words...