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...hills of Cottonwood, with gnarled sycamores and fruit trees everywhere. Dressed in blue jeans, his Arizona Wildcats hat and a white sweatshirt, McCain bounced on the toes of his shoes as he dropped 3-lb. chickens over one of four crusty gas grills. Covered with Hog's Breath--a dry seasoning of salt, pepper, garlic and paprika--the hunks browned over low heat for an hour and a half while grillmaster McCain constantly applied fresh squeezed lemon juice to keep them moist. "You know that putting green Clinton had installed?" the candidate joked. "We're turning that into a grill...
With just over two minutes to play in the final stanza, all 2,284 in attendance held their breath as Bala led a four-on-two rush on Clarkson's inexperienced rookie goaltender Karl Mattson. But a little bad luck sent Bala's shot ricocheting off the far post and on to the stick of Golden Knights' winger Adam Campana...
...weeks ago, Iranians held their breath when a mortar blast killed one person and injured five others near the President's office. The attack turned out to be the work of an exiled leftist group rather than religious thugs who have frequently unleashed violence on the President's supporters. A prominent ayatullah provided a moment of comic relief by making the farfetched claim that an ex-CIA director had arrived in Tehran with suitcases full of cash for reformers. The laughter was short-lived: hard-liners jailed a cartoonist for lampooning the conspiracy-minded ayatullah...
Remember when the gold watch was a metaphor for retirement from a corporate culture that cared for its workers during those years between wedding and Winnebago? A company took you in after college and for 40 years gave you Christmas bonuses and ignored your martini breath after lunch. In exchange, at 65 you left with a Rolex or a gold-plated Timex, depending on pay scale...
...Still, our best efforts are often not enough. Like any other publication, we need writers, and last week's open house couldn't have come at a better time. The breath of air we needed came in the form of fresh faces, fresh ideas and, we daresay, fresh Juice. The energy we hadn't seen since freshman year was infectious, as seasoned writers found new range and the eds remembered why they shot in the first place. The future looks bright...