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...prior Republican gains in the once-Democrat-dominated state, finds himself with few friends and a growing list of potential challengers from within his own party. His tenuous re-election prospects - and the distancing from Fletcher by the state's Republican chieftain, Senator Mitch McConnell - suggest that his grip on the Governor's Mansion is shaky...
...intuitive-lean forward to go forward, lean back to stop and reverse, twist your wrist to turn-the latest models (the i2 and off-road x2) respond like they're controlled by mere thought. The secret is in its new control shaft, which has done away with the steering grip and now sways in sync with the rider to turn the device. The effect is akin to skiing, on cement...
...Here I'm just giving the bottom line and its straight from my heart: if you break a bone, have an operation, wrench your back and get a few tablets for short term use - fine. You will be off them in a few days and probably never feel the grip. But if you have a chronically painful condition of any sort, do everything in your power to stay off narcotic pain medicines. These drugs affect not just your brain, but your mind. Lives, families, whole communities have been destroyed by people using them. Narcotics are what you're thinking...
...world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand out in the crowd...
...whole Hoover bunch piles into a Volkswagen bus so that Olive can take her shot at the Miss Sunshine crown. The vehicle is a perfect symbol of the family's tenuous grip on reality: only the third and fourth gears are functioning. That metaphor is pitch-perfect, but the film works a little too hard at proving the vileness of beauty pageants. When the M.C. (Matt Winston) croons God Bless America into the contestants' innocent ears, he pretty much summarizes American awfulness. It is a broad and fertile field, and the Hoover family plows it desperately in a comedy that...