Word: crows
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...popular culture to raise their children!" - came immediately after he declared that he and Al Gore would maintain the U.S. armed forces as the strongest fighting machine on the planet. Interesting, because that military statement was a Cold War holdover, the kind of line Democrats long felt obligated to crow for fear of being labeled commies. The army, after all, was what stood between us and the Russkies, what ensured America's dominance of the world...
...that's all you need to do to plump up those keratinocytes. If you have sensitive, dry skin, avoid products that contain vitamin A or hydroxy acids. Don't smoke. Use hydroxy acids sparingly. Whatever you do, don't get obsessive. There are worse things than sprouting a few crow's feet or age spots. Just remember that nobody ever died of a wrinkle...
...problem, of course, is that plenty of reasonable people do just that. Gore is stuck with the mantle of the vice presidency, and if he wants to crow about all the things that went right for the country in the last eight years, he's going to have to pay homage to the things that didn't. It's a risky calculation, of course, and its success is dependent on a forgiving electorate. Happily for Gore, while Clinton's personal approval ratings have never recovered from the Lewinsky affair, the President maintains extremely strong job approval scores. And that dichotomy...
...coverage of the speech by Luce's wife: "The roar of applause was punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech; that Harry Truman is 'a gone goose.' The Democrats, she said, were divided into 'a Jim Crow wing led by lynch-loving Bourbons, a Moscow wing masterminded by Stalin's Mortimer Snerd, Henry Wallace, and a Pendergast wing run by the wampum and boodle boys who gave us Harry Truman in one of their more pixilated moments...
...hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Gloria Estefan, among many others, eagerly raised money to purchase instruments--and that was before all the buzz about what music can do for the soul and the psyche. By the time school bells ring this September, kids in more than 500 schools in 40 communities will be playing...