Word: bender
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...favored candidate didn't meet the viability threshold - any candidate who fails to garner at least 15% of support after the first vote is disqualified, and his or her supporters are forced to pick their second choice. "I think it's a pretty good form of democracy," says Richard Bender, the original architect of the caucuses, who designed them to ensure that minority voices (e.g., anti-Vietnam voices, then) in the party were fairly represented and had a say in electing delegates to the state convention. "The 15% rule some people don't like. If I'm for Candidate...
Almost as soon as Ann and Don Bender marked the 4th of July by planting a field of more than 3,500 flags - one for each of the American troops killed in Iraq- the elements began to take a toll. The baking sun and sudden storms of a Great Plains summer left the little flagsticks warped and broken and the fabric bleached and torn...
...would stand at one end and realize that we couldn't even see the other end," Ann Bender recalled. "And every one is some mother's child. I don't know what's harder, the young ones, 19, 20, 21, who barely had a chance to live, or the older guys, in their 30s and 40s, who leave wives and children behind...
...poems. The performance was imaginative, creative, and a bit beyond the pale. Claire Porter’s poetry dives into the mundane names of over 68 different muscles, describing their respective functions and etymological origins. With titles such as “Psoas—The Tender Bender,” and “Gluteus to my Ears,” you couldn’t help but feel like you were a fifth-grader learning the parts of the body—or in medical school, attending a particularly eccentric extracurricular performance.Either way, the audience should have been...
...wave goodbye to reality stars, fashion reporters, underfed models, and, of course, Fabio.10:00 p.m.As we walk away from the tents for the last time—passing models in street clothes drinking diet Red Bulls and smoking cigarettes—we realize that our two day fashion bender has come to a close. We’ve consolidated our learning experience into three key tenets. 1. Metallic is still in. Feel free to keep those ’80s accessories in the closet.2. A fresh, bright color pallet will spice up the most conventional of outfits. Think yellow, cerulean...