Word: cynthia
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...layering on leggings, wide belts and baggy sweaters. "Leggings give everything a sleek, modern look," says Ken Downing, fashion director of Neiman Marcus. But are you ready to revive the Flashdance look? "It's easy to romanticize a time when excess was a part of everyday life," says designer Cynthia Rowley. So turn up that disco beat and push up your sleeves...
Surprising some key political analysts who expected her to cinch Georgia's primary election, Cynthia McKinney is now facing a run-off. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Atlanta eked out a win against former Dekalb County commissioner Hank Johnson, but fell short of a majority...
...People are fed up with Cynthia McKinney," and "it crosses racial boundaries," said Jeff Dickerson, an African-American constituent of McKinney's and a panelist on the political TV talk show The Georgia Gang who predicted a tight runoff race. "I think that there's a quiet campaign among African-American voters" against her, he added...
...primary battle against Hank Johnson, an African-American former county commissioner, and John Coyne, a white businessman, McKinney is taking a low profile, which she successfully employed in 2004. "Can Cynthia McKinney be weird enough to lose that seat?" said one D.C. Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous. It would "take a lot of weirdness." The strategist added: "She has created this sense that she is a victim of persecution and that creates an identification between her and a lot of people in her district...
...with an itemized list indicating hundreds of millions of federal dollars she has helped bring to Georgia since first elected in 1992. "She is a very, very smart woman," with "very strong and good political instincts," said Matt Towery, Georgia Republican pollster and former state representative. "Anyone who thinks Cynthia McKinney is stupid or crazy doesn't know the term crazy like a fox." Towery noted that McKinney has not been running ads in her campaign: "She knows this go-round that if she stays quiet, keeps to herself, that she's likely to get a pass." One indication...