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"We've been chasing her like Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale for the last year-and-a-half," he said.
Chris Wallace 'Hopes' Sarah Palin Sits On His Lap Sunday (VIDEO) 2010
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"We've been chasing her like Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale for the last year-and-a-half," he said.
Chris Wallace 'Hopes' Sarah Palin Sits On His Lap Sunday (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"We've been chasing her like Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale for the last year-and-a-half," he said.
Chris Wallace 'Hopes' Sarah Palin Sits On His Lap Sunday (VIDEO) 2010
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The Chair of the Judiciary Committee plays the part of Captain Ahab.
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Although, like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK, they all want to "strike through the pasteboard mask of reality" and make the Wilderness a better, tamed place for themselves.
Archive 2009-02-15 2009
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In his adopted role as Captain Ahab, Mr. Bush will extend the tours of four combat brigades and add another to the Iraqi meat-grinder, all in the name of pacifying the capital city where, even today, F-18 aircraft are bombing neighborhoods to rout out insurgents.
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We agreed we were both tired, so we went to our respective beds, and the house was dark — there was a storm on, out there in the waters of Captain Ahab — and I felt almost stranded on this spit of land that lies along the beckoning finger of Cape Cod.
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HEALY: It got President Nixon to back off the sort of Captain Ahab mode in Vietnam and it may be the only way to get this president to start to change course.
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We agreed we were both tired, so we went to our respective beds, and the house was dark — there was a storm on, out there in the waters of Captain Ahab — and I felt almost stranded on this spit of land that lies along the beckoning finger of Cape Cod.
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This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what
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