Word: jon
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...prohibit most such drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco. If the soldiers' function is to find and kill the enemy, why not treat them to khat, crystal meth and crack? Like President Reagan reportedly said of kids' addiction to computer war games, at least their reflexes would be quicker. Jon McPhee, ST. PETERSBURG...
...break. As if to defend his distaste, Tyrangiel trots out an absurd, less-than-articulate statement from Chuck Klosterman ("Coldplay is absolutely the s - iest f - ing band I've ever heard in my entire f - ing life"), and a pompous statement from the New York Times's Jon Pareles, who calls Coldplay "insufferable." Not only is Coldplay anything but insufferable, but their previous album, X&Y, was one of the best pop-rock albums of the new millennium. I'm expecting greatness again from Viva la Vida, especially with master producer Brian Eno at the helm. Cameron Conant, NASHVILLE...
...Chaffetz, the new nominee, is a familiar face in Utah politics: he was the former campaign manager for popular Governor Jon Huntsman, for whom he also served as chief of staff. Chaffetz was also known statewide as a placekicker on the BYU football team in the late 1980s...
...were still working for The Daily Show? -Rachel Hamilton, PARIS, ILI do, especially now with the conventions coming up and knowing the kind of fun that they're going to have when they get out there in the field. I miss it, and I miss the people. I miss Jon [Stewart] a lot, I miss Stephen [Colbert] a lot. They're good friends of mine. I envy that, but at this point, I am so far out of the loop in terms of my political acumen. I have such a cursory knowledge of [politics] right now, that I think...
...preoccupations more traditionally associated with Labour, such as a focus on human rights. On the Labour benches, many of the Prime Minister's supporters worried that failure to win the day could precipitate an internal coup attempt against Brown. "Today was all about the durability of this government," said Jon Cruddas, a popular MP on the left of the Labour party, after casting his vote in favor of the measure. "The debate was a bit of an onion," said another Labour left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn, an opponent of the extension. "There was a serious debate about civil liberties. There...