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...McCain: Temper of the Times Although I am troubled by the refusal of Senator John McCain to answer many of the questions asked of him, the emphasis Time placed on that aspect rather than on his answers on the issues is another example of the media?s liberal bias [Sept. 8]. I was disappointed that the vast majority of your interview with McCain was devoted to his ?prickly? attitude, when the full version of the interview on Time.com had much more substance. Alanna Rice, Council Bluffs, Iowa...
...next Summer Olympics are going to be held in London. Is that going to help Brits temper their low self-esteem...
...more over the years than the claim that he shouted "Kill! Kill! Kill!" as he worked in the war room of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. An absolute falsehood, he maintains, along with the claim that he sometimes gets nosebleeds when he gets angry, like stigmata of his temper. The nosebleeds, he says, just happen sometimes, as they would for anybody else. When McCain calls him "Sergeant Schmidt," the candidate is making a joke on a couple of different levels...
...party-line Reaganite; his cleanest and most difficult break with the President was his 1983 call to withdraw the Marines from Lebanon because he didn't see a clear mission for them. He turned out to have been tragically right. He was otherwise notable mostly for his bursts of temper, especially when he perceived an affront to his honor. In his first House race, he threatened to beat up an opponent who had called his ex-wife to look for dirt. In his initial Senate run, he exploded after his opponent accused him of selling out for special-interest contributions...
Super Dan's kryptonite is his temper, which threatens to erupt at any moment. Last year, the Chinese media wrote eyewitness accounts detailing how Lin had decked his coach during training. Although Lin denied that incident took place, it was harder to ignore another public confrontation last January when during a match he reacted to a disputed call by yelling at a South Korean coach and threatening him with his raised racket. Lin never apologized...