Word: entertainers
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...executive and a couple of Hillary's press representatives. The event itself began with a lot of head-turning. There's Brad and Jennifer! There's John Travolta! There's Carol Burnett! There's Muhammad Ali! And there, on stage, were an array of stars lending their talents to entertain Hillary, Bill and Chelsea...
...recent camping trip with our TV-addicted extended family, we alone knew how to entertain ourselves. Our first night in the woods, we suggested playing charades, and it became our hilarious nightly ritual. On our last night, we held a "no-talent show," in which each person sang or told stories for the group. I don't know how long my daughter and I can hold out without TV, but we've learned some discipline and some alternatives. Maybe we can't kill the sucker--but we can control...
...Jackson: his decision to abruptly end the proceedings without allowing Microsoft to call witnesses (including Gates) to discuss the remedies. This kept the case from dragging on until the end of the year, but it also denied the company an opportunity to mount an important defense. "The refusal to entertain any further debate was a mistake," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "What Jackson was basically saying is that nothing was going to change his mind...
...ALSo part of what gives voters pause. When the subject gets serious and Bush doesn't, you have to wonder whether a man so in love with certainty, so impatient with complexity, is ready for the grave duties of the presidency. That may be why he was willing to entertain doubt last week when he agreed for the first time in his record-setting 131 executions to grant a 30-day reprieve so that a more sophisticated DNA test of semen and hair samples could be performed in the rape and murder case of Ricky Nolen McGinn...
...believed to have descended directly from H. ergaster, the discovery of closely related bones in Eurasia suggests that our own species may have evolved outside the ancestral continent or arisen in several places simultaneously. Says Swisher: "If you have the ancestral form outside Africa, then you have to entertain those thoughts...