Word: reached
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...recounts. And in Tallahassee, the Florida legislature--another old enemy--has been threatening to ignore the court and simply select the Bush Electoral College delegates. As for Jeb Bush, he was feuding with the Florida justices even before they tried to make it more difficult for his brother to reach the White House...
...says so right here. We "bellow," says the Los Angeles Times. And "howl." We reach "fever pitch." Our "rage sharpens" our rhetoric, says the Washington Post. We "unleash our wrath," says the Baltimore Sun. I always trust the newspapers, of course, but I've searched myself for signs of rage, and I've come up empty. The same is true for my conservative pals (not one of whom, I'm happy to say, could be counted among the G.O.P. battalion of Brooks Brothers goons who actually did bellow and howl at Miami-Dade officials last month). Like most people, conservatives...
...excesses of popularity in the sake of academics, extracurriculars, even athletics. Not to say that they weren't social or likeable: just that they weren't exactly canvassing for votes for Homecoming Queen. Many of them were focused on getting into a good college, one which would help them reach their goals--for a family, a career, or beyond...
...many the situation changes dramatically once they reach Harvard, and the temptations to strive to be "well-liked" are strong. In an atmosphere where there are more people like you--bright--than ever before, the desire to be popular is certainly present. There are final clubs to be punched, extracurricular events to be conquered and upper-crust socializing to be done. You need to know everybody in your dorm, your house and your Yard. If you don't personally know the big men on campus, you certainly need to know everything about them...
...loveless woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than a Kuhnian shift in paradigm. Bruno, who is neither particularly dashing nor particularly well-endowed (the latter being of even more importance...