Word: wounded
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...response, Republicans decided to shower Butt Man with resumes, a none too subtle reference to the White House's own unhealable wound, Craig Livingstone, the White House personnel security chief who resigned in June after his deputy was caught sniffing through the confidential FBI files of some 900 people. Last week it came out that Livingstone's resume boasted of his work as a "Senior Consultant to Counter-Event Operations, Clinton-Gore '92," a fancy way of saying he spent part of that campaign recruiting volunteers to dress up in chicken costumes and taunt George Bush. When the "Chicken George...
Less momentous, but still embarrassing to the Administration. Livingstone announced his resignation as head of the Office of White House Personnel Security from the witness table in the 90 minutes of hearings, but he remained a focus of the investigation because the files had wound up in his office. So who chose the "beefy former bar bouncer" (his own plaintive summary of how the press has described him) for such a sensitive job? Nobody could give any coherent answer--not even Livingstone, who seemed remarkably vague on many matters. He insisted, for example, that he learned only about a month...
Still, FDR's optimism proved to be justified. Even before the War was over, the chemical synthesis of quinine improved treatment for malaria in the pacific theatre, and the manufacturing of Fleming's penicillin effectively controlled wound infections for the first time in the history of war-fare. Following the War, inspired by these successes, the Federal government made unprecedented investments in many fields of science, through the NIH and other agencies. These investments have been essential for the vitality of American science ever since...
...take the form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill...
...Nebraska, for example, jeers that Dole is becoming a "tax-cut candy man." Such sneering is at best premature. Much of it has been based on a 14-page memo from economists advising the campaign that has been widely leaked but was only a preliminary version of what wound up in Dole's hands...