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...SHAG LOOK Long hair was hot when Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination in 1976. His restrained shag handily bested Gerald Ford's thinning...
HOLLYWOOD HAIR Four years later, Carter's pale strands did him in. He was defeated by Ronald Reagan, whose shiny, Hollywood locks had been Brylcreemed into obedience...
...explicably gone. (Occasionally, in fact, my friends and I do nothing but think about how the Knicks passed up native St. John’s product Ron Artest for Frenchman Frederic Weis, who not only never made it to American shores but proceeded to be dunked over by Vince Carter in the Olympics. I’m not sure if I can stress this enough. Frederic Weis is over seven feet all, purportedly. Vince Carter physically dunked over him. Over him. Over him. Over him. But I digress...
DIED. MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK, 13, upbeat poet and champion of world peace who sold millions of books and enchanted even more people with spirited appearances on TV shows like Oprah and Good Morning America; of muscular dystrophy; in Washington. Mattie, who counted former President Jimmy Carter as a friend, published five books of poetry and was an ever cheerful advocate of muscular dystrophy awareness. He had a rare form of the disease, which impeded his breathing, heart rate and digestion and confined him to a wheelchair. The same disease killed his three elder siblings...
...Right that runs the Washington Republican Party. As opposed to the Republicans out in America, mainline Republicans. This was not about evidence. This was about a struggle for power. I think that they really saw us as usurpers. They thought the only reason they lost the election to Jimmy Carter was Watergate. They thought they had found a formula to describe us in a way that would basically move us out of consideration with the American people, rooted in the receding memory of the '60s. You know, weak on crime, fiscally irresponsible, never met a tax we didn't like...