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...allowing a zoning change that favored her dentist son. She first chose to run for public office as a young mother after reading that an incumbent city commissioner had no opponent. Kids in tow, she went down and filed to run against him. She won. But she also knows bitter defeat. She lost another election by a single vote...
...children fight over a precious toy, they squabble and yowl and tug at the treasure until a grownup steps in, separates them and awards it to one or the other. And sometimes by then, the toy turns out to be broken, and the winner ends up as sad and bitter as the loser...
That depends on which Lott shows up to lead. Will it be the bitter Republican partisan who last May got into a shouting match with Tom Daschle on the Senate floor--the minority leader accusing Lott of turning the Senate into a "dictatorship," and Lott, waving his arms in anger, saying he refused to be "threatened and intimidated"? Or will it be the conciliator who bucked his party's hard-liners during the impeachment crisis and quietly collaborated with Democrats to shorten the Senate trial...
...four instrumentalists, allowing for spectacular vocal range and clever bantering among singers. Still, there are signs of experimental distortion: spectacular songs like "Half-Hearted Get" show the expert hand of Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, credited with "open groove surgery." Critics have often described Heaton's lyrics as bitter and cynical (the band's previous female vocalist reputedly left because of one of the lyrics). But on Painting it Red, Heaton comes across as a defender of true love, even if he rarely sinks to clichd subjects and metaphors, singing about love through old age and rages against infidelity...
...Yale is it," Rose said. "This is what we're going to be thinking about until next fall. We didn't win last year, and I don't want to go through another year with a bitter taste in my mouth...