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...with a few rogues. But it's also true that no candidate - not even one as strongly branded in the public mind as Giuliani - entirely controls his public image. Three years ago this summer, John Kerry watched in dismay as his Vietnam record was turned against him by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Something similar could happen, if Giuliani isn't more careful, to Hizzoner's carefully crafted image as the scourge of wrongdoers the world over...
Probably not much. Though anyone could file an ethics complaint against Gonzales, and a lawyer disciplinary committee could start poking around on its own, the reality is that state bars are neither bold nor swift. As Silver puts it, "I'd be astonished to find the Texas bar taking the lead...
Members of the organizations expressed concern that the swift assumption that a large group of black people couldn’t possibly be Harvard students—and the resulting decision to call HUPD on the “trespassers”—betrays some students’ underlying prejudices about the acceptable race of the average Harvard student. In the ensuing e-mail debate on numerous lists, such complaints were dismissed as touchy and divisive by a disturbingly large number of people. That’s right, they pulled the “playing-the-race-card?...
...response was swift and alarming: “It is too bad so much time and effort was put into a game that clearly favours some people against others,” he wrote. “Where I come from they’d say you guys did a shitty job. Well I’ll only say that you are incapable.” It wasn’t yet 10 p.m. The first turn had been played at 5 p.m. We didn’t think we’d yet had enough time to screw...
...Critics say his four years in office produced very little. "There's two ways to look at this guy. One is that the glass is half empty. The other is that the glass is totally empty," says Stephen Crosby, a Republican who served in the Swift administration and is now dean of the graduate school of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Romney's ads and campaign speeches boast of engineering an economic turnaround. But Michael Widmer, president of the nonpartisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, points out that the state has lagged most others in job growth. And while...