Word: dan
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...Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer insisted that relations between the key players on the two staffs have been good, even if some residents of the outer planets haven't gotten with the program. By historic measures, Team Clinton came out of the peace negotiations with a respectable win: it got two of the four convention nights (Hillary will speak on Tuesday, Bill on Wednesday) and language in the party platform denouncing the press for its sexist coverage. Campaign officials are still working out the choreography of a roll call vote and how exactly Clinton will release her delegates to vote...
...Known for his bouffant wigs, silver platform shoes and etched-on eyebrows, Glitter became a household name in the 1970s with hits like I'm the Leader of the Gang and Do You Wanna Touch Me? In a recent interview with the Vietnamese newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan, he said that he would like to make a comeback - an unlikely prospect given that his former fans now have children they'd presumably like to protect...
...straight with people about what you really want to do, you get stuck trying to think fast about what you can say that will placate the large majority of people and not tick off your base. In Obama's case, that seems to present a real challenge. Dan Burns, Sacramento, California...
...Super Dan's kryptonite is his temper, which threatens to erupt at any moment. Last year, the Chinese media wrote eyewitness accounts detailing how Lin had decked his coach during training. Although Lin denied that incident took place, it was harder to ignore another public confrontation last January when during a match he reacted to a disputed call by yelling at a South Korean coach and threatening him with his raised racket. Lin never apologized...
...Chinese cheerleaders dressed in skimpy ethnic-minority costumes whipped the audience into a frenzy. It was the kind of atmosphere one might imagine at the deciding game of an NBA final, but this was badminton Chinese style. And no one attracts more fervent shrieks from female fans than Super Dan - especially when he has just won his first Olympic gold medal...