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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senator's passions do, though they receive less attention. Last week brought the latest media stir over a salty McCain riposte, this one to Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn; it included both a "barnyard epithet" (as it came to be known in the Nixon White House transcripts) and a verb last in political news when uttered by Dick Cheney. (Notably, the harshest reaction reporters received from Romney when they pressed him about those laboring Guatemalans was "Geez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and Romney's War of Words | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

Everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. --the Rev. Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Team Up to Give Back | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...nothing more than the progeny of slaves. The black puritanical view turns black people from active agents into helpless targets, and seeks to deny us the ability to look at our condition and interpret it as we will. I've heard nigger used as an honorific, an insult, a verb and even an interjection. I get a warm feeling every time I hear someone come up with a new way to deploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave the N-Word Alone | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...fairly touching tribute to "over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted" in Iraq. Unlike many, Obama has opposed this war since the beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror and dismay, or he will be accused of not "supporting the troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Support the Troops: Bring Them Home | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

...more stable and more mature population that may be a bit quieter at night,” he told the commission, while the shift might also improve the quality of life “for students who use ‘quadding’ as a verb...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Talks Up New Housing | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

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