Word: beers
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...that marked the Albertville competition in 1992 -- the "Unified Team" of swiftly separating nations that were united only in rejecting their common heritage. This year's tiny host nation, a folksy land of reindeer and trolls, has welcomed the world with no harsher intention than occasionally overcharging for a beer...
...attack yet on civilians in Sarajevo. A decade ago in that beautiful pastel city, everyone in the world was young and strong and fearless, sporting and peaceful and clean. Back then, so long ago, the harshest stories being told were of how much one had to pay for a beer...
...with all those colors and watery figures," he said. We looked at him, dumbfounded. We reminded him that this was a historical moment and that the war -- so they say -- is coming to an end. "Oh that," he replied. "I heard about that. I'll buy five kegs of beer tomorrow and call 50 of our friends, and we'll all get good and smashed from joy. But forget that for now. Let me tell you about this fountain I saw once a long time ago in Rome. I'm almost sure we could put . something like that...
This, of course, is not important. The important thing is that we had already been identified as optimists so that from our optimistic corner we could discuss that fountain and think about drinking those five kegs of beer. We then heard that on this "remarkably calm and peaceful day" in Sarajevo, as one foreign reporter put it, "only" 18 people, including three children, were wounded by "a few wayward bullets." Truly a peaceful...
...reminds me of Norm on 'Cheers.' If he could run this whole campaign sitting on a bar stool having a beer and watching a Chicago Bears game and have people come up to him one by one and talk to them, he could probably win it. But Florida is about wholesale politics and the packaging will be difficult. --Tom Fiedler, political editor of the Miami Herald, discussing the candidacy of Hugh Rodham, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, in the Florida Senate race. Despite the overwhelming number of Bears fans in the Sunshine State, we think Mr. Rodham would do better...