Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performing arts in which large men who resemble comic-book characters pretend to fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...
...religion to remind us why we've been electing those loathsome politicians to office all these years in the first place. And as columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. '73 wrote yesterday, Ventura's act is already wearing thin. By the time Ventura-style brashness no longer seems like such a smart political move, will it be too late for Bush to change gears and start acting like a grown...
...Brother can be useful, and he figures parents, who tend to put their kids? futures ahead of slash-and-burn ideology, feel the same way. To win, Bush?d have to run to the center anyway - he?s just starting early. If his colleagues are smart, they'll do what the Democrats did in '96: Keep quiet and enjoy the ride...
Many years ago, Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas...
...state approval by state regulators. God knows how long how thatcould take." The stock market, meanwhile, doesn?t seem to much care who wins; as long as big companies are throwing their weight around again, traders don?t even have time to worry about the Fed (meeting tomorrow. The smart money?s on no rate hike). Sprint shares were hopping Monday on the news of a duel for the maiden?s hand, and the Dow and NASDAQ alike were following suit. At least some folks still know the value of a wheelbarrow-ful of the green stuff...