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...your midterm went or what your plans are for the weekend. For Ryan, friendship and leadership are so inextricably bound that it is easy to see why he has become so dedicated to serving his peers and is so respected by them as a leader. These intangibles distinguish him as a candidate...
...thinking about winning the Democratic presidential nomination and you're not already on a first (Hillary) or last name (Obama) basis with millions of Americans, it won't be easy. You have to find a compelling personal story or policy idea to distinguish yourself from at least a half dozen other similar politicians. Then, you need to sell that story convincingly to the news media, to experienced political talent you want on your staff and, most importantly, to the deep-pocketed money men or the emerging Netroots who can help you raise upwards of $20 million to run a competitive...
...omni-theatrical eye of the circum-ambient fly, even one preserved beyond its season by the warm fuffing of the basement radiators, there is no difference between what a vigilant, if bored, audience member might distinguish as a decidedly attractive male student and an esteemed female Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat...
...things distinguish the career of Kate Winslet. First, she had four Oscar nominations before she turned 30, a feat no other actor has managed since Liz Taylor more than four decades ago. Second, she has got naked in more movies than any nonporn star of her generation. From Titanic, the movie that propelled her into the American mainstream, in which she posed for Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack, to Little Children, her Oscar play for this year, in which she and Patrick Wilson's character have a tumble--the first of many--on the tumble dryer, she has shown her willingness...
...Alesandro was a child, her father used to collect yellow sheets of paper that were stacked and stapled together at the end of each week. They were called the "favor file." That was the way Baltimore's legendary Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.--later known as "Big Tommy," to distinguish him from his namesake son who also became mayor--kept track of who had been given a job or some other benevolence. The record always came in handy at election time. From the age of 13, his only daughter Nancy took charge of the desk in their home on Albemarle...