Word: closers
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Bush was born intelligent, healthy, handsome, tastefully wealthy, with the best social and school connections and a lust for adventure, to a mother and father who taught him the virtue of public service. So he may have been born closer to home plate than even Hightower suggested...
What never changes is George Bush's belief that his greatest challenge, his greatest achievement, is his family. "The family is the overriding consideration. It gives strength for everything else. We don't have to refurbish this family. George W. and Jeb have never been closer, and the other children are as much a part of us. Right now, it is tremendously exciting that there are two [Bushes] in public life, and I want their desires to be fulfilled. But Bar and I are going to stay out of the fray. We can help raise money. If George W. wants...
...know I couldn't have done what Jackie did. I don't think anybody else could have done it. Somehow, though, Jackie had the strength to suppress his instincts, to sacrifice his pride for his people's. It was an incredible act of selflessness that brought the races closer together than ever before and shaped the dreams of an entire generation...
...victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 championship game, the one that turned out to be the NFL's coming-out party. Or you could cite the three MVP awards, the 10 Pro Bowl games, the unfathomable record of touchdown passes in 47 straight games (people come closer to Joe DiMaggio's streak than to this one: next best after Unitas is Dan Marino, with 30). But Unitas' influence--vast and beyond challenge--is this: he was the first modern quarterback in a sport that the quarterbacks have owned ever since...
Thankfully, the administration has moved closer to the launch of air-strikes against Serb positions. In 1995, similar strikes helped bring about the lull in hostilities that allowed the negotiation of the Dayton Peace Accords. We hope that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic yields to diplomatic pressure, but if military force is necessary...