Word: caveats
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...surprise party for Harry's 52nd birthday last November, the President- elect gave the toast with the caveat that he did not think anyone could possibly know what the Thomasons meant to him unless they had been through as many ups and downs with him as they had in the campaign. "Harry was there when I got sick and I was under siege and I got so fat I could hardly walk. Everyone else was making fun of me, but Harry just went out and bought me bigger suits." Late at night, when she was too weary to do anything...
...with a country club. Anything that can be played in the backyard goes down well. The Kennedys still own the patent on touch football, and Bush expropriated horseshoes. Badminton or volleyball might do nicely. And keep running, as long as you look funny in the shorts. Beware of Lycra. Caveat jogger: pin to your locker a picture of the ashen-faced Jimmy Carter collapsing near Camp David to remind yourself that you have moved to the tropics and that running in the heat should be kept at a stately pace...
...bank gold even though she had flubbed during the earlier team competition. So they exaggerated a knee injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution and, lo, Gutsu was in. Sure enough, she won the gold. Now Gutsu's triumph, impressive as it was, will always carry a caveat -- "Remember? She didn't even qualify for the all-around." And Galieva will have to digest the bitter lesson that fairness and feelings count for nothing in gymnastics; all that matters is winning...
...hard to project how the government will change as its ranks are increasingly filled by women. And Kaminer is quick to issue another caveat. "Women are not monolithic," she says. "It is very unrealistic, and it is almost insulting, to expect women [legislators] to vote the same...
...caveat about books in intellectual Cambridge: by the time most students graduate from Harvard, they have accumulated towering piles of paperbacks, many of which they have never even opened. A cheap copy of Thoreau on overstock or the latest book on pop psychology is always a tempting purchase...