Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...centuries are hardly inspired, and their lists are hardly fair - the greats of the past 100 years can't be measured by 2000's ruler. ESPN's 50 greatest athletes of the century are all right. They wouldn't last six seconds in NFL 2K for Sega Dreamcast...
...were to lose my mind right now and pick one of you up and bash your head against the floor and kill you, would that be right?" Keyes asked his audience of ten-year-olds last week at a New Hampshire elementary school. He was looking for a "no," hoping to equate such a psychotic act to that of abortion...
...federal income tax. He favors school prayer. Keyes stands out among similar arch-conservatives for his firebrand speaking, filled with harangues against the immoral left and punctuated with index fingers gesturing upwards, probably to Almighty God. And while these stands are boilerplate conservative--or at least boilerplate far, far right conservative--Keyes is close to unique in the party for his race talk. He is one of very few Republicans willing to argue that the party of Lincoln is still the party which best defends African-Americans. Liberals, he contends, have damaged the black community. "Instead of working with...
...Instead, Keyes draws mostly from the religious right--"people of a very traditionalist orientation," as Lichenstein puts it. Despite the Protestantism of conservatives in the American heartland, Keyes, a devout Catholic, still finds a passionate common ground on issues that religious conservatives see as nothing short of Biblical. "Alan deeply believes that abortion is murder," Lichenstein says. "In this sense, he and John Paul II--you would find no difference between them. Because of the depth of his belief, he could not possibly do otherwise...
...MATT: I do a tutoring program. I don't do much. I'm writing a thesis, which is pretty much my main activity right now. I don't really work out. I don't play a sport. I used to have a very active Harvard life and now I do a lot of sleeping...