Word: cravens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their top advisers thought Gore would have the guts to pick him. "It's his best choice, but he won't do it," a Bush aide told TIME a few days before the news broke. "Gore's too political." Since Bush and his men see Gore as a craven pol, they were sure he would make a choice based on cheap electoral considerations--maybe Senator Bob Graham, who might help deliver Florida. Or they saw him picking one of the party's smooth stars, like the liberal John Kerry of Massachusetts or the untested John Edwards of North Carolina--people...
...between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...
...Archibald Craven, Mary's emotionally challenged uncle and guardian, Matthew Anderson '03 brings to life a multi-dimensional character struggling to deal with the loss of his wife and struggling to deal with Mary, this new life-force who invades his forbidding Victorian household. Anderson's singing improves upon his effortless ability to act with both the living and the dead. His impressive timbre adds new layers of meaning to Lucy Simon's beautiful and haunting melodies...
Jaclyn Huberman '01 as Lily Craven (Archibald's deceased wife), Stephen Toub '01 as Neville Craven (his younger brother), and Jennifer Glick '00 as Martha (Mary's chambermaid) stand out for their vocal abilities as well. Glick's rendition of "Hold On" nearly had the audience on its feet in the middle of the show, as did Toub and Anderson's duet of "Lily's eyes." Huberman's performance is consistently on a professional level...
...Inauguration in 1993. And it was natural that Gore would propose people who were well known to him. Clinton named as director Johnny Hayes, who has worked as a principal fund raiser of every Gore campaign since he entered politics--including the current one. The President named as chairman Craven Crowell, an old pal of Gore's from his newspaper days and a top aide to Gore's ally Jim Sasser, a former Democratic Senator from Tennessee. (The third board member, a Kentucky Republican, was in mid-term...