Word: touched
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...took a more circumspect line. The change in tone is one reason why Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, rather than denouncing Powell, plans to press Gingrich, G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour and other Republican leaders into coaxing Powell farther to the right. That may not be easy. With a touch of defiance, Powell-the-pol argued last week that extremism loses elections. "Find your revolutionary who gets more than 8% or 9% of the vote," he told reporters, "and let me know when...
...touch of irony, Sweeney began the year backing Thomas Donahue, 67, the current president of the AFL-CIO and the man he is running against. Sweeney had wanted Lane Kirkland, president of the labor group for 16 years, to step down in favor of Donahue, his No. 2. But when Kirkland refused, Sweeney decided to challenge the leader himself. Kirkland responded by resigning last June--whereupon Donahue became the president...
...many people he's still a murder suspect," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president at McCann-Erickson advertising. "Why should advertisers associate themselves with that kind of problem when they don't have to?" Offers a top movie agent: "I don't have a clue who would touch this guy in this business. We're not career-salvation artists; we're agents...
Lastly, there is that which we should never touch. Stairmasters users beware. Although it may seem as if the person who used the machine before you wiped off the drops of sweat they left on the handle bars, they did not. Like Ragu tomato sauce, "It's in there." Trust...
...election itself and simply voted for friends or based their votes on factors outside of official positions on issues (if they voted at all). Hopefully, PUCC will find a way to apply its liberalism and its drive toward activism on campus in a way that is far more in touch with the practicalities of the voting process and which is far more politically digestible to the studious Harvard voter. Joel Pollak...