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...like the Gipper. Like Reagan, he has formed a PAC so he can keep his own campaign going even while Bush wages his. And like Reagan in 1976, who barely mentioned Gerald Ford, who'd beaten him in the primaries (Jimmy Carter became President), McCain now has reason to slight the guy who wants to rub in who lost on the front page of the New York Times. In the past Bush's supporters made much of McCain's temper. Yet they must be concerned that Bush seems more irritated in victory than McCain does in defeat...
...whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert Lowell and Isaiah Berlin. And of course there is McCarthy's archenemy, Lillian Hellman. In a taped interview with Dick Cavett, first aired in 1980, McCarthy said, with only slight hyperbole, that "every word she writes is is a lie, including and and the." Hellman, the self-mythologizing Stalinist Blackglama legend, sued, but died before the matter came to trial...
...Matthew F. Lawson '00, who said he developed a "slight Twinkie problem" after watching a Hostess commercial recently, the strike has helped curb his addiction...
Listen closely, and you'll hear a slight catch in the Voice of America. And in light of recent events, it's not hard to understand why. Wednesday, the federal government agreed to pay $508 million to 1,100 women who charged the venerable, pro-democracy public radio service with gender discrimination back in 1977. The gigantic cash settlement represents by far the largest disbursement in any discrimination suit in the public or private sector. Each of the plaintiffs claims she was denied job opportunities or promotions within the radio service on the basis of her gender. Some women even...
...avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution to 20th century culture would have been slight...