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...Caro said that Johnson’s political career was not characterized simply by a power grab...
...flood of nutritional advice for consumers--much of it contradictory. One expert says red meat is bad. Another says bacon keeps you trim. Someone says skip the potatoes, and someone else says eat the skin. And let's face it, controversy sells. Diet books and magazine articles try to grab our attention by telling us everything we thought we knew was wrong...
...four-nothing, after all. Sure I could run upstairs and grab my Red Sox cap. (Well, the free cap with a pair of red socks on it that you get when signing up for a Mastercard at Fenway, but you know what I mean.) You see, my teams never win when I wear the apparel. But Thursday was different; I could feel it. Roger Clemens was down and out; Pedro Martinez was looking strong. Like every other baseball-crazed resident of the Bay State, I was whooping “Cowboy Up” (without really knowing what it meant...
Last week’s power grab by the Republican lawmakers of the Lone Star State was wily indeed. In their rush to lasso the state’s Democratic representatives out of office, the political bandits twisted their state’s congressional districts along clumsy racial lines. By shunting minority voters into their own bizarrely-shaped districts—keeping these predominantly Democratic citizens out of potentially contentious races—the legislators aimed to sweep their Republican pals into the House...
Princeton jumped ahead early in the varsity race to grab the lead, but the Black and White, then No. 13, walked back through the field to edge out the Tigers by two seconds...