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...reason that Lieberman, a lifelong Democrat, would be interested in extracting concessions from Republicans as well. He describes himself as a hawk abroad, and lately his rhetoric has come to resemble the G.O.P.'s, notably when he said Democratic opposition to Bush's troop surge would "discourage our troops, hearten our enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California liberal Barbara...
...initial debate on Iraq war resolutions last week, Lieberman was at it again. The notably mild Warner-Levin resolution of disapproval would "discourage our troops and hearten our enemies," he said. A day later, I asked Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska about politicians--not Lieberman specifically--who made such statements. "They're despicable," he said, in a decidedly unsenatorial tone. "Those sorts of statements are the last refuge of a scoundrel. They suggest a lack of patriotism on the part of people like me and John Warner and Carl Levin. They hurt our democracy...
...clear that students care about the campus workers they interact with on a daily basis. When they believe that a worker they know and appreciate is being treated unfairly, they protest, demanding that he or she be treated with justice. The resounding support recently demonstrated for Armstrong should hearten those who work on Harvard’s campus, for whom student support can help close the gap between a job with poverty wages and a decent job with dignity...
...replacing him with a hand-picked confidante on Tuesday, Chairman Sumner Redstone has sent a message to Wall Street and Hollywood, for the second time in less than a month, that he's running the show at the entertainment conglomerate he controls. But that news didn't seem to hearten many folks in either quarter about Viacom's outlook...
...pickup games in empty lots. He is impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged, if ever raucous, blue collar fans, held open the open tryout at which Papale was discovered...