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...convention in Philadelphia, the Bush team has chosen as its theme the careful "Renewing America's Purpose. Together." The real leitmotif--pushed by the campaign for many weeks--is much edgier: "George Bush Is a Different Kind of Republican." Mimicking almost exactly the language Bill Clinton used to stiff-arm his party's liberals eight years ago, it is an implicit sniff at the old kind of Republicans who will be gathered that week in Philadelphia...
Haworth, at 5 ft. 10 in. and 300 lbs., is an exceptional athlete in a body that screams couch potato. As a high school softball player, she was so good that kids called her "the Arm," but Haworth wasn't satisfied with the game. Her dad, knowing she had always been interested in those bodybuilding TV shows, took her to see Cohen in 1996. When Haworth lifted a bar with more than 100 lbs. on it "like it was a loaf of bread," he knew he'd found a keeper...
...Somerville resident called CPD to report that while on Cambridge Street riding her bike, she was beside a motor vehicle with Massachusetts license plates. The sideview mirror struck her arm and "grabbed" both she and the bike, dragging them down the street. The passenger of the car was aware of the contact...
...came to laze in my shadow, his surly, prehistoric head 3 ft. from mine in the emerald water. He rippled his ventrals and pectorals to stabilize his dreamy suspension. I moved only my eyes at first, and then not even those. At length, not thinking, I shifted my arm on the gunwale. The motion roused the fish from its dream. It finned away and vanished into the deeper emerald light...
DIED. CHARLES MACGILLIVARY, 83, dauntless Army sergeant who received the Medal of Honor in 1945 for destroying four German machine-gun nests during a one-man mission in the Battle of the Bulge; in Boston. The Canadian native lost an arm while silencing the last of the enemy emplacements...