Word: making
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...Then again, the Navy's decision may be a recognition of a reality that politicians may be slower to acknowledge: that formal political alliances with moderate regimes in the Arab world don't necessarily make them safe for U.S. personnel. Israel is the only real democracy in the region, and most of the pro-Western moderate regimes on whose good offices both Israel and the West rely are not particularly reflective of the feelings of their citizenry - and if they were, it's questionable whether they would be either aligned with Washington or at peace with Israel. So, despite...
...bottle [how I felt], I'd make millions," added Bush supporter Nadine Arnet, dressed up as former Texas Gov. Ann Richards...
Working through a calculus problem set while keeping a watchful eye on the screen, Sammy Ford '04 of Texas, said that he was "motivated...because I would not trust George W. to make life or death decisions about our country...
...Last Award for Electoral-Call Coup: NBC is the first to declare Florida for Gore. Which is quite an achievement, if he actually wins it. ... We're giving it the award for the last time here because I believe these meaningless fights over who's 0.8 seconds faster to make whatever call are irrelevant to everyone and probably the cause of a lot of boneheaded journalistic decisions...
...None of this means anything (just as, it turns out, the networks' first call of Florida, it turns out, didn't mean anything either). And as a sheepish Tom Brokaw is himself saying now, "Just because we project a state... doesn't make it so." OK. But projecting a state should mean a pretty solid confidence that you're not going to need to un-project it. If you don't have that confidence, then why project it? Simple. To win a pointless, irrelevant journalistic competition...