Word: tonight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...jumped for joy, while the red, white, and black of Egypt’s flag waved from the balconies in the crowded streets of Cairo, I sat and watched. When the final whistle blew, the city erupted. It seemed, I told my friend, that all of Egypt was out tonight, dancing, jumping, and singing in the streets.I had been in Egypt for just about two weeks. Having left the friendly confines of Ohiri field, I moved on to cover an away game of sorts; to see where soccer really lives and breaths: in every single other country in the world...
...numbers seem to be approaching each other—this was great tonight,” said Moore, who has been leading the community initiative since last fall...
...North Vietnamese twisted and yanked the war-crimes confession out of him - but it is bracing, all the same, to hear a politician admit weakness. Indeed, this was the first time I'd ever heard a presidential candidate admit his party's failure as comprehensively as McCain did tonight: "Instead of changing Washington, Washington changed us ... We lost. We lost your trust...
...strongest aspect of the speech may have been the awkwardness of the delivery. What we saw tonight was the real John McCain. But his offering was thin for a country in a heap of trouble. Given the admitted failure of his party, he didn't present anything more than his own integrity as an action plan. And given the anger and vitriol of his campaign - given the scurrilous, sarcastic speeches he allowed to be delivered on Wednesday night; given the embarrassing antics and media conspiracies spouted by his staff - McCain's reputation for integrity has been badly damaged...
...McCain's presence in our public life has been, on balance, a valuable thing. His speech tonight gave intimations of why that has been so, but it lacked the drive and creativity of a true presidential acceptance. He is the standard bearer of a failed ideology - ironically, a belief in "me first" before country - and tonight the leap between what McCain really cares about, and what his party really believes, proved too great a chasm for an old warrior to bridge. (See photos of John McCain's Tumultuous Week here...