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GEORGE WILL
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Buckley took history by the lapels
WASHINGTON -- Those who think Jack Nicholson's neon smile is the last word in smiles never saw William F. Buckley's. It could light up an auditorium; it did light up half a century of elegant advocacy that made him an engaging public intellectual and the 20th century's most consequential journalist.
Like Dukakis, Obama shrugged
Days after he'd been nominated by Democrats for president in the summer of 1988, while enjoying a double-digit lead in the polls, Michael Dukakis took what he fancied as a Trumanesque whistle-stop train tour.
Could you translate your English into English?
Just as the Southerner must have the Northern-speak of a New Yorker translated, so must those of us from the States have the English of someone from the United Kingdom translated. During a weeklong visit with a fine group of early childhood educators from the UK, I often questioned whether or not our "Yankee" English -- in this usage of the word, all of y'all are all Yankees -- actually derived from England.
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