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...true Bush style, he's not eager to press the hot-buttons - Thompson has avoided beating the drum on divisive issues during four terms in Wisconsin and would appear to have no inclination to start doing so in Washington. He's widely respected and a cinch for confirmation...
...moment in the Sixties when the last rules of puritanical date restraint between boys and girls - at Gore's Harvard, they called them parietals - were abandoned under pressure of the baby boomers' importunate hormones (the hormones shrewdly mixed themselves up in anti-war politics, which made "sexual liberation" a cinch). The convention kiss is proof not only of an endearing and enduring connubial passion between the middle-aged high school sweethearts Al and Tipper, but also of the residual baby boom refusal to grow up and behave like adults. Grownups don't behave the way Al and Tipper behaved that...
...What repair or renovation will help you sell your house faster? Before sinking money into a new swimming pool, an investment which may not be recouped, check out homegain.com After surveying 2,000 Realtors, this site generated a list of the Top 10 moderately priced improvements to help you cinch the deal. The site, which matches buyers and sellers with real estate agents and lenders, also offers online tutorials and articles on topics like the hidden costs of ownership, and home-protection plans. --By Carole Buia...
...your way? On-the-run oil changes should be within reach of automotive science by the year 2025. And nuisance-sensing, high-voltage "stun cushions" to silence backseat drivers for the duration. Smart windshield wipers that shred any leaflet, handbill or parking ticket stuck under them? By 2025, a cinch...
...vanish into the oubliette--that isn't in the cards. The 20th century has seen great artists whose work and names, as the eulogists say, will live forever. But the Guggenheim's show makes you think of the impending fate of our present. It is a lead-pipe cinch that the year 2100 will see the absurdities of our taste, both private and official, and wonder how we could have been so comically wrong about such self-evident crap. A few score years from now, will Jeff Koons' porcelain confections be on view in the world's museums, or will...