Word: behinds
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...visit a year ago," Hillary said at the Biondi event, "the last thing I imagined is that I would be standing here asking for your help in a run for the Senate." Indeed, a year ago some people didn't imagine she would still be standing. Her face swollen behind dark sunglasses, using Chelsea as a human shield between her and the man who'd just been outed by a blue dress, she barely spoke to anyone, least of all to him. There was no celebrity-clogged birthday dinner, no golf, no singing Gershwin around the piano as in years...
...added, "I did not want those [hot grenades] used. I asked for and received assurances that they were not incendiary." She confessed the news did not help her credibility and promised another probe, most likely overseen by an outside legal expert, into a controversy she thought she had put behind her. "She is not a person who screams or throws things," says a Justice Department official, "but she is doing the functional equivalent of throwing a Ming vase...
Still, the sport's stark metaphor--a human leaving safety behind to leap into the void--may be a perfect fit with our times. As extreme a risk taker as McGuire seems, we may all have more in common with him than we know or care to admit. Heading into the millennium, America has embarked on a national orgy of thrill seeking and risk taking. The rise of adventure and extreme sports like BASE jumping, snowboarding, ice climbing, skateboarding and paragliding is merely the most vivid manifestation of this new national behavior. Investors once content to buy stocks and hold...
This consequences-be-damned attitude may also be behind some disquieting trends that surfaced in a report issued last week by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration stating that the number of Americans entering treatment centers for heroin surged 29% between 1992 and 1997. "I'm seeking the widest possible range of human experience," says a recent Ivy League graduate about his heroin...
...Personal Injuries contains some surprises that are remarkable even by Turow's inventive standards. "This is a lawyer's story," announces the narrator, George Mason, at the very beginning of the book, "the kind attorneys like to hear and tell." What this means is that readers will be taken behind the scenes as a group of lawyers and law enforcers try to gather evidence that will break up a cabal of corrupt judges in Turow's fictional Kindle County. This sting operation poses dangers for everyone involved, and Turow spares neither his characters nor readers maximum suspense. WHEN Sept...