No comment.Spin Doctor Supremo su·pre·mo n. pl. su·pre·mos Chiefly British One who is highest in authority or command, as of an organization. [Spanish and Italian, supreme, supremo, from Latin White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer compared the hush-hush, back-room nature of Dick Cheney's energy panel to the writing of the Constitution. "The very document that protects our liberties more than anything else, the Constitution, was of course drafted in secrecy," he said. Money for Nothing New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times columnist Paul Krugman defended the $50,000 he received as an adviser to Enron with this ethical gem: "This was an advisory panel that had no function I was aware of," Krugman told the Times. Running from Duty The eight-man police department in Penryn, Pennsylvania, refused the job of directing traffic at the annual YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. triathlon. Why? Because the Y promotes witchcraft by reading Harry Potter books to children. "As long as we don't stand up, it won't stop," said Captain Robert Fichthorn, who sent a letter to the organization questioning its religious integrity. Pop! Goes the Weasel weasel, name for certain small, lithe, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae (weasel family). Members of this family are generally characterized by long bodies and necks, short legs, small rounded ears, and medium to long tails. In The Wall Street Journal, former political guru turned Fox commentator Dick Morris wondered why one of his former clients, Bill Clinton, was "strangely uninterested" in terrorism during the 1996 election: "Even as he fretted about whether to sign the welfare reform act and brooded about the FBI file, Paula Jones, and Whitewater scandals, he seemed curiously uninvolved un·in·volved adj. Feeling or showing no interest or involvement; unconcerned: an uninvolved bystander. Adj. 1. in the battle against terrorism." Your Tax Money at Work Attorney General Ashcroft spent $8,000 on drapes because he couldn't bear to be photographed in front of two partially nude statues in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice. One statue represents the Spirit of Justice and has a single breast completely exposed. Your Tax Laws at Work Two Florida international University Florida International University, primarily at University Park, Miami; coeducational; chartered 1965, opened 1972. A research university, it has 18 colleges and schools and many specialized centers and institutes, including those in biomedical engineering, database finance professors have calculated that multinational corporations avoided $45 billion in taxes in 2000 by fixing prices for transactions with their foreign affiliates. The study, based on U.S. Department of Commerce data, offered an example of a corporation exporting a $5,000 toothbrush and importing a $528 bulldozer. Sweet and Sour Pork Sweet and sour pork ( or , pinyin: gūluròu or gǔlǎoròu; Cantonese: gu1 lou1 yuk6) is a Chinese dish that is particularly popular in Cantonese cuisine and American Chinese cuisine. Apparently, the President earned fast track trade negotiating authority the old-fashioned way--he bought it. Labor Notes reports an anonymous White House official saying, "You won't believe how much money we spent in the last two hours." Money for Something Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, who often scribbles on the subject of character, was paid between $25,000 and $50,000 by Enron for speech-writing. "I don't regret having done the work--it was honest work, honestly done, hard work too, reported on my taxes, not hidden in any way," she told The Washington Post. Remedial Logic Smart Business technology columnist Paul Somerson finished a recent column on the ubiquity of surveillance cameras this way: "It's time to loosen overly tight police handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. a bit (especially on issues like profiling)--just don't trample our basic rights to privacy and freedom in the process." Insult Pays Off, Environmental activist Andy Stahl told Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz that an ad salesman from D.C.'s other daily, The Washington Times, offered him a chance to run a full-page ad to counter damaging stories the Times's news department ran about him and his colleagues. The Times's general manager said the ad salesman was out of bounds and will be "chastised chas·tise tr.v. chas·tised, chas·tis·ing, chas·tis·es 1. To punish, as by beating. See Synonyms at punish. 2. To criticize severely; rebuke. 3. Archaic To purify. " for his indiscretion in·dis·cre·tion n. 1. Lack of discretion; injudiciousness. 2. An indiscreet act or remark. indiscretion Noun 1. the lack of discretion 2. . Readers are invited to submit No Comment items. Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication. Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned. |
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