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...those who knew Dole as she grew up twenty years before the heyday of feminism that molded First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton say there was something different about her. There was a grit beneath the glitter of her debutante life...
...that special occasion, do not realize that "gusset" and "crotch" mean the same thing. Despite the goofiness of it all, there is no denying here in these two male-oriented porno/home-shopping sites, we have an essential principle of noir--the conflict between the rough and the pleasant, between grit and gloss. It is a symbolic battle between the seedy underworld and the conventions of society, a clash between the deviant and the traditional. Do real heroes wear leather or lace...
Nothing symbolizes this nation's true grit better than the mountain retreat of Nakfa. There the near defeated rebel troops hewed out miles of rock trenches with bayonets and survived for 10 years beneath the shelling of the Ethiopian army. It still takes 10 hours in a four-wheel to drive the 137 miles from the capital over rugged mountain tracks. But Nakfa is a place of veneration akin to Valley Forge. "It reminds us forever of our resistance," says Zacharias, a teacher at the new technical school. The national emblem is the camel that carried supplies to Nakfa...
...medals were awarded for staging an Olympics, Nagano would doubtless receive a silver, the color of its snowfall; almost everything Japanese was delicate and accommodating except the weather, which turned skiers on their heads when it wasn't doing the same to schedules. In the end, however, true grit prevailed: the fastest man on skis, Hermann Maier ("Other Name: Das Monster," his official bio explains), confirmed his extraterrestrial status by getting up from a horrific crash and picking up two golds in four days; his female counterpart, Katja Seizinger, returned to form by winning two golds in two days. Even...
...GRIT YOUR TEETH Dental plaque, believe it or not, may be linked to heart disease. How? Animals injected with a bacterium found in plaque develop blood clots--a major cause of heart attacks...