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...conservative states like Iowa and South Carolina, as suggested by my colleague Joe Klein, Huckabee bristled. "Joe would be shocked at the kind of response we're getting here. I fully expect that our campaign will do well enough to win New Hampshire; I realize that's a bold, outlandish thing to say, but I wouldn't bet against me out here," Huckabee said...
...President wears white shoes fastened with blue shoelaces and anchored by canary yellow soles. His shirt is a vague shade of green, and his trademark “skinny jeans”—ripped in one knee—hug his hips. The get-up is typically outlandish, but, perhaps more importantly, it is reflective of the leadership style that serves Petersen well: wacky but workable...
...most outlandish story about the Eurovision singer appeared in the Serbian tabloid newspaper Press a few days before the contest took place. It claimed that an alliance of Western powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from...
...world ofastronomy, the venerated Polish-born theoretical astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski was a renegade, forever proposing ideas dubbed outlandish by colleagues. Yet Paczynski changed the way we look at the sky. In the 1980s he refined a technique called microlensing, allowing scientists a more textured view of the galaxy. In the '90s he and a team of Polish researchers established a sweeping--and ongoing--project to capture all celestial activity and record rare events like killer asteroids. He was 67 and had brain cancer...
...Wikipedia, his first post-incarceration campaign slogan was “He may not be perfect, but he’s perfect for D.C.” Wikipedia is unreliable, of course, so you can take those words or leave them. But even if they and the list of outlandish quotations aren’t all true—even if somebody made them up—they were composed with a very specific comical image in mind.I love Washington, and I love to laugh, but I have come to realize that laughing at Washington and its embarrassments...