Word: struck
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...fantasy. To do that, we asked editor-at-large David Von Drehle, based in Kansas City, Mo., to shed light on the Glenn Beck phenomenon as well as the larger idea of the anger of American politics today. "Clearly, Glenn Beck is extremely talented, and the man has struck a chord," Von Drehle says. "But the nature of politics right now rewards the people who play the least harmonious tunes...
...Treasury or the Fed talked that way. Instead, policymakers in the U.S. and overseas agreed that the panic had to be stopped at any cost. And it was, through a bailout that placed trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk. It was expensive, messy and unfair. It struck many people as un-American. But it worked. "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system" is how President George W. Bush described it last December...
...Crimson experienced problems in the back row, where Dartmouth successfully directed numerous attacks throughout the game. The Big Green took a slight 8-5 lead off of kills from sophomore powerhouse Madeline Baird and Crimson attack errors, but the home team regained its footing off of a powerfully-struck kill from freshman Taylor Docter. Soon thereafter, a block from junior Mikaelle Comrie evened the score...
...blasts from Baird and senior Megan MacGregor. From there, the two teams kept it close and frequently exchanged the lead. Dartmouth emerged on top at 18-16 and did not look back from there. Appropriately, the Big Green completed the sweep off of one final Baird kill that struck a Harvard defender and bounced wildly out-of-bounds...
TIME: Thank you very much, Mr. President for meeting with us. Before we start with the major issues, I wanted to ask you a personal question. I spent Election Day in your old neighborhood of Nasiabad and I was struck, as I always am, by the numbers of widows and orphans of the Iran - Iraq War. Most Americans don't understand the impact of that war, a million casualties on your country. I wanted to ask you about your own experiences during that war. Did you see combat? Did friends of yours die? What impact did have on your worldview...