Word: barely
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...jamz. 4) Fire-eaters—C’mon, who doesn’t want a freshman roommate who swallows flaming knives on a regular basis? 5) World-savers—If you once prevented panthers from devouring an Indian village by fighting off the cats with your bare hands, you have a fighting chance of getting in. 6) Budding Hugh Hefners—A college can never have too many porn mags...third time’s the charm? 7) “Anonymous” gossip bloggers—You don’t even have...
...campaigning will have served to remind voters of her divisiveness. This certainly seemed the case in South Carolina. If Barack Obama is the candidate, his message of a new, hopeful brand of politics will have been wholly undermined by insult warfare. Not to mention that an extended period of bare-knuckle politics threatens to undo all the energy the Democratic Party has amassed in a campaign that featured both the potential first female president and potentially the first African American. For Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and senior advisor...
Clark Gable's naked pecs might have started it. In a racy scene with Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, Gable unbuttons his shirt to reveal--to the shock of 1934 audiences--a bare chest. No undershirt. Legend has it that undershirt sales dropped 75% that year. While never verified, the tale lives on because Hollywood loves it. If Gable's chest can have that kind of mass cultural impact, the thinking goes, then movies, far from being just passive entertainments, can influence audiences to change their behavior in more significant ways. If a movie can doom undershirts...
Still there is no denying the good fortune that has helped McCain secure the nomination. Just two months ago, the Arizona Senator was still a distant long shot, operating a bare-bones campaign on a bank loan with a dilapidated staff of mostly unpaid advisors. Then almost everything broke his way: Mike Huckabee won Iowa, crippling the powerhouse campaign of Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani abandoned New Hampshire, allowing his moderate supporters to shift to McCain. Fred Thompson stayed in the race until South Carolina, bleeding enough votes away from Huckabee to allow McCain to win that key state. Even Huckabee...
Protestants remain a bare and strikingly diverse majority; the study found widespread movement among 100 variations of Protestantism. For America's faithful, it's a buyer's market...