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...down Guantanamo?”) and quipped that the Arizona senator is running for President because he wants to improve his New York Times obituary. Rest assured, Ms. Coulter, that McCain will be around for a while and that your morbid desire to the contrary, fed by your frustrated ego after the rejection of your favorite conservative sweetheart Mitt Romney, is as appalling as your belief that the empty venom you spit is somehow humorous or interesting...
...first—and only—time that I read Homer’s “The Odyssey” was in my high school freshman English class. I hated it. I was alternately bored with the flush language, infuriated by Odysseus’s ego and infidelity, and frustrated by what I saw as Penelope’s pathetic loyalty. I kept on putting down “The Odyssey” to sneak a peek at the next book on the syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel...
...enjoy your recent roles as much as your older ones? -Pierre-Henri Gayte, Buc, FranceI'm kind of turning into Gene Hackman, doing a lot of these juicy, supporting parts. But I don't mind. My ego isn't bruised by not playing the lead. It's nice not to carry an entire film. I'm a little bit lazy-I suffer from inertia...
...candidate's pale, scarred, 71-year-old face spread into a triumphant grin. "Whether it was because of what happened eight years ago in South Carolina or because his campaign was declared dead last July, I don't know," says Mark Salter, McCain's adviser, speechwriter and alter ego. "But he was as happy as I've ever seen him." The old warrior in McCain has learned to savor every battle won because he knows it could be the last...
...whose planning required exact knowledge of the new calendar seven years in advance would have been in the loop. That would have been no good at all. Instead, the announcement redux was The Crimson’s top story on Wednesday. Take that, Iowa.If Harvard is the House That Ego Built, then in the last semester faculty and administrators have made some impressive additions. But it’s been tough slogging, and without “The Great Debaters” to tide us over Harvard would be in real trouble of becoming—forgive me?...