Word: droving
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...picked fights with his colleagues, who conspicuously left committee hearings when his turn came to speak. A female lawmaker recalled that when Joe noticed her fiddling with a bra strap during a caucus meeting, he leaned over and whispered, "You need any help with that?" His fits of temper drove staff members away, but they saw a vulnerable, insecure side as well. "There was this huge fear of failure. His mother fueled that a lot," recalls one. Ethel told Joe he would never be what his father was, that he was not as smart, not as talented. "When he would...
...some part of him must have been in thrall to the goddess's dark power. After making the offering, police sources say, Shanmugavela fell into a trance in the makeshift Kali temple and intoned a four-digit sequence, these numbers the twisted legacy of a woman's life. Michael drove straight to a betting shop and put down a few hundred dollars, carefully repeating the sequence. The numbers were, of course, losers. Had they been the winning numbers, would the sacrifice of Carolyn's life have been any less in vain...
...Zionism is racism" is different. It's something of a red herring, coming as it does a decade after the repeal of the U.N. resolution condemning the Jewish nationalist ideology that drove the creation of modern Israel. The issue has been revived for the racism conference in order to build diplomatic support for the plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel...
...want that 'aspirational' audience," says Gareth Edmondson-Jones, the airline's spokesman and one of many employees who came from Virgin Atlantic. "We see our customers as the same ones who can afford more but shop at Target because their stuff is hip but inexpensive." That kind of thinking drove decisions like JetBlue's choice of leather seats instead of the less expensive cloth. "It's a nicer look, a better feel," says Neeleman, in full salesman mode. "Of course, it's also easier to clean when people puke...
...Congress has a posse - people who, in addition to their day job, do the driving, gather the intelligence, tell the boss his floor speech was positively Jeffersonian. Authorities want to know whether Dayton's duties went beyond that. First they want to know what happened the night he reportedly drove Condit to a Virginia suburb to dispose of a case that once contained a watch that had been given to the Congressman by a former staff member, Joleen Argentini McKay. Second, they want to hear more about Dayton's recent conversations with McKay. McKay told USA Today that...