Word: suspectibility
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...entertain - indeed, that one way you can get across a point about which you feel passionately is to make people smile while they are absorbing it. If you disagreed with a Safire column, fine (I usually did); but at least it got the juices flowing. And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire - to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats - pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone...
...Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism and communism, Safire went on to work in the White House as a speechwriter, before starting a career as a wordsmith at the Times. And a wordsmith he was: in addition to his columns, Safire also penned (a verb I suspect he would have hated) the On Language page in the New York Times Magazine, continuing to write it until shortly before he died. For those of us who love to know where a word or phrase comes from, how its meaning and usage has changed and what verbal construction...
...police informant. Afzali, the reports say, first called Zazi's father Mohammed, then Najibullah himself, alerting them to the probe. The FBI, which had been monitoring the calls, was then forced to move immediately to arrest the Zazis - much sooner than it had planned. (Read "2-Min. Bio: Terrorism Suspect Najibullah Zazi...
...point out that 12 Democrats crossed the aisle to vote for the Medicare Prescription Drug Program in 2005. "I think the sheer act of passing it with Democratic-only votes would result in significant backlash, not just from Republicans - though clearly it would gin up Republican intensity - but I suspect from independents as well," says Whit Ayers, a GOP strategist...
...didn't take police long to pinpoint a suspect in the grisly murder of Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale graduate student found dead in a research lab Sept. 13 - the day she was supposed to be married. Almost immediately, suspicion congealed around Raymond Clark, 24, a technician with access to Le's lab, who had reportedly entered the building as many as 10 times the day she disappeared and bore suspicious wounds on his chest, arms and back. Clark was arrested Sept. 17 and charged with murder. As investigators soon learned, there was little in his past that...