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"In an era when the egos of male athletes are dwarfed only by their paychecks, the World Cup women, minimum wagers by pro-sports standards, reminded the country that sports superstars can be gracious and grateful," coos Newsweek . CNN's Bruce Morton observes approvingly that unlike male athletes, the female players don't "have million dollar contracts or big shoe deals.
("There are 127 varieties of nuts," he marveled approvingly.
Commentators spoke approvingly of his "unambiguous liberalism," his stalwart defense of the downtrodden, and his attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
John Ashcroft took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to argue for defunding the NEA, he quoted approvingly from the work of NEA critic and frequent LAT contributor Jan Breslauer.
(He had, after all, called his third memoir New York Jew .) When I suggested that what he was really doing was Judaizing Eliot, making him serve as an epigraph to Kazin's American-Jewish life-hungry odyssey, he laughed approvingly.