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...called my dad, who hung up on me. Then he got me a very good lawyer. I spent three days in jail. After I was released, I didn't have the 50¢ it cost to take a bus to my lawyer, so I had to bum money from someone who asked what it was for. I told him I was an artist and needed help. He then showed me an article that had just come out--the title read ARTIST STEALS ART. I said, "Hey, that...
...Chambers, a British sprinter of interest to Australians. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, in an interview with Time, Australia's great 100-m hope, Matt Shirvington, admitted he felt frustrated by his inability to break 10 sec. He said he'd received "a kick in the bum" from Chambers, who's the same age as Shirvington (25) and had once had the same best time of 10.03. In June 2000, Chambers broke 10 sec. and eventually went as low as 9.87. He was a favorite for gold in Athens until he was banned from the Olympics...
...Chambers, a British sprinter of interest to Australians. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, in an interview with Time, Australia's great 100-m hope, Matt Shirvington, admitted he felt frustrated by his inability to break 10 sec. He said he'd received "a kick in the bum" from Chambers, who's the same age as Shirvington (25) and had once had the same best time of 10.03. In June 2000, Chambers broke 10 sec. and eventually went as low as 9.87. He was a favorite for gold in Athens until he was banned from the Olympics...
...this after the '94 election, we've got to have a bipartisan solution. I hope that in my account here I have persuaded people that the blame for those two big decisions rests entirely with me, because I always thought Hillary and Ira Magaziner got a totally bum rap on this. Those were big, big calls I made and they were wrong. I made a lot of big calls right, but those two I made wrong...
...evaluate her performance only in that context [Clarke's charges] is a bum rap. It doesn't do justice at all to what she has contributed ... Evaluate the process and Condi's role in terms of whether the President has made the right decisions. There's no question he has made the right decisions. We will look back on this period of time as having been historic in terms of the use of American power in taking on our enemies and safeguarding the American people...