Word: bender
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...David J. Bender, a long-time friend of Kuehl's who talked with her throughout the campaign, said her strong ties to leaders in state government helped her campaign...
...Kuehl] made it clear she was very much a part of the Democratic leadership," said Bender, who is also a contributing editor at George magazine. "She would come in with a lot of clout with the governor and that's important for any legislator...
Multiple Gores: Gore Number One (abundantly qualified by experience, brains, knowledge) coexists with Gore Number Two (needy kid with daddy complex, beta male) coexists with Gore Number Three (ruthless political gut fighter and truth-bender) coexists with Gore Number Four (Boy Scout, bright as a new dime, with merit badges in environment and policy wonking) coexists with Gore Number Five (the one you saw at the Buddhist temple...
...inconvenience of mortality, about the way a parent's final illness can intrude on his children at the worst possible moment, about how the business of conducting him out of this life with some dignity has to be improvised amid all the distractions of the day: the fender bender, the shrilling of the cell phone, the dog eager to gnaw that phone into silence...