Word: gangly
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...presidential campaign. "It was time to step back and think about what lessons we can draw," she says. A veteran political analyst who came to TIME from the New Republic, Carlson is a familiar face to many TV viewers--she can be seen Saturday nights on cnn's Capital Gang--and she shares the public's general disenchantment with this race. "It's been a dispiriting campaign," she says. "We've learned that education is good and drugs are bad, and not much else. But while the debate may be meaningless, the choice in a presidential election never...
Working off an old (1955) film of the same title, writers Richard Price and Alexander Ignon have imagined this tough artisan of the deal (he built a major airline from scratch) confronting an equally smart and ruthless kidnapper (Gary Sinise) and his dangerously fractious gang. At stake: the life of Tom's cruelly abducted son. The ransom: $2 million. Tom's wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up. In 7 out of 10 cases, the G-man tells Tom, this leads...
...former gang member, the popular Torres is emblematic of his hardworking immigrant constituents. He protected the district's B-2 plant and sponsored a bill to fight gang violence. His support of NAFTA disappointed United Auto Worker allies, but Torres was able to extract from the White House a $225 million commitment to job retraining...
Waters is a veteran legislator and an unapologetic liberal. Enraged by recent allegations that the CIA might have financed a crack cocaine ring in her district--where poverty and black-on-black gang violence are common--she immediately called for official investigations. Though the congressional majority may regard her fervor with disdain, Waters has overwhelming support at home, where she has never won less than 75% of the vote...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The crime issue will be especially important to voters in Racine, where crime rates and gang violence continue to soar. That is why I support the federal ban on assault weapons and the Brady Bill...