Word: soft
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Americans take fairness and procedural integrity for granted, but kickbacks, bribes and nepotism are the lingua franca of politics and business in the rest of the world. (In the United States, we have "soft money" instead.) Salt Lake, with its squeaky-clean reputation as a heavily religious community, had the misfortune of being the first city to get caught, the victim of intense, some say excessive, scrutiny from an IOC looking for answers. And the saddest part of the story is that the payoff effort wasn't even necessary: Salt Lake beat Quebec in the bidding by a landslide...
Another factor in the competition is the competing allegiances of the DNC's top decision-makers. The general chair, Roy Romer, is a former Colorado governor, while the national chair, Massachusetts native Steven Grossman, harbors a soft spot for Boston. Grossman has termed himself an "objective cheerleader," who is rooting for Boston in his heart but looking at the process objectively, according to Wyche...
Freetown is burning. The sky is barely visible through the gray clouds of smoke curling up from the eastern side of the city. The occasional finger of white African sunlight that pokes through the haze falls on piles of dead bodies. The soft sands of Lumley beach, which sits on the north edge of town, are blanketed with dead soldiers, and the tranquil bay that lies between downtown and the airport is an oily, grisly mess, teeming with floating bodies and body parts...
...real outcast, and he needs money." Carney says there's always a chance that McCain could hit it off with the public and "catch a wave" in the primaries. But the realities are that he'd be a lot better off if he'd gotten that soft-money ban past Trent Lott last spring. Anyone need a Vice President with no vices...
...night the scandal broke, I watched from a few feet away in the State Dining Room as the President and his wife Hillary honored people who had helped restore the old mansion to its current grandeur. The scandal raged outside, and in a soft, golden light, Clinton sat, chin up, eyes steady, outwardly untouched beneath the portrait of Abraham Lincoln as his wife talked of their love of the White House and its legends. I wondered then (and still do) if there would ever be a reconciliation of the forces at war within this young man and, because...