Word: gaspeing
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...Colin Powell was the last gasp of the polarized campus, or at least a raucous send-off for the last class that really knew how to stir up controversy, even if they weren't the masters. Al Gore is the dirge for the first class that lacked the rhetorical hare-trigger that made the Harvard campus an interesting, if sometimes tense, place...
...necessary," McCain told the San Francisco Chronicle on a left-coast campaign trip. "But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to undergo illegal and dangerous operations." Gasp. A statement that wouldn?t arouse much ire with sociologists (or certainly moderate San Franciscans) suddenly had the GOP?s right wing up in arms. McCain, after 17 years of opposing abortion in the Senate, suddenly found himself first vainly fudging on CNN Sunday night, and then writing an abashed...
...convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like that innocent gasp of discovery, when she and the movies were young...
...reminding lawmakers (and law-vetoers) that global trade can affect votes. Will the Senate put West Virginia before world affairs, and pass the quota bill (it passed the House overwhelmingly in March)? Or will the Man of Steel (formerly the Man of Jell-O) prevail in his fight for ?- gasp ?- what he thinks is right? So far, so good...
That doesn't mean Congress, though, with its sheaf of documentation in tow, will be any less intent on nailing both the Clinton administration (for unpatriotic negligence) and the Chinese (for -- gasp -- espionage!). Janet Reno, no stranger to calls for her resignation, looks likelier than ever to take the fall for denying the FBI a wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. And China's Most Favored Nation status, up for renewal by Congress in June, could finally go down as well. (Though, as Beijing correctly points out -- while denying all charges -- the U.S. couldn't have gotten...