Word: utterly
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...vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand black kids get an education" but hardly utter "a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists..." He also took them to task for keeping so much wealth on their side of the wall, for building too few schools and too many jails...
...attended Stanford with Tiger and is based in London, flew in to interview the athlete. "What struck me," he says, "is his self-assurance, his almost other-worldly belief that things will come in their own time and that they will work out well for him. He seemed in utter control of everything he said and did when he met us. For a 24-year-old, his total lack of anxiety about his life was astonishing." Ratnesar knows from recent experience...
...Jena, a poor rural community, the corrections and prison populations were particularly mismatched. "You've got a Billy Bob high school-educated white guy trying to provide services and treatment to very tough, emotionally disturbed African-American kids," says David Utter, co-counsel for Louisiana's jailed youth in a class action against the state. Others argue that Wackenhut Corrections got a raw deal compared to the other four public juvenile facilities. "The reality is that [they] took their worst offenders and sent them to Jena," says John Cooksey, the Republican Congressman who represents Jena's district...
...countrymen barely subsisted, many of them reduced to eating roots. He favored James Bond and Daffy Duck in his collection of some 20,000 videotapes. He was a lush who once showed up at a meeting so drunk that his father had him thrown out. Nobody had heard him utter anything more than "Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army!" He had a Howard Hughes-like obsession about germs, was so paranoid that he would have rivals purged, so ruthless that he was accused of masterminding a plot to assassinate a South Korean President and to down an airliner...
...hand, should have been fairer and more honest. The crypto issue, which is still smoldering and poisoning the atmosphere, could have been settled sensibly long ago. We would have found out that some small forms of crypto were useful and practical and that most of the visionary stuff was utter hogwash. It would have shaken out in a welter of disillusionment, just as Flower Power did. But we never got to that point, thanks mostly to the obstreperous attitudes of the anti-crypto forces, who are basically spies...