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Every day is Groundhog Day for zookeeper Doug Schwartz. Schwartz has been working with animals for over 15 years, but his main charge is Staten Island Chuck, the 10-pound, two-year-old groundhog who serves as New York City's answer to Punxsutawney Phil. Chuck has a knack for accurate predictions, but he only gets trotted out once a year and doesn't even have a permanent display at the zoo. So what does he do the rest of the time? TIME talks to Schwartz about caring for Chuck and how the animal makes his Groundhog Day prediction...
...main candidates in a bruising U.S. Senate race there acknowledged they're headed for a runoff battle that could recycle weeks of the same stump speeches, party luminaries and withering attack ads that plagued the state in the period leading up to the vote. It is the election as Groundhog...
CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Economy Resources Consistency Party Unity ACTION Republicans have their choice of two painful metaphors: a broken record or Groundhog Day. The same darn pattern repeats itself: bad economic news highlights an unpopular President Bush, drives voters to the Democrats, boosts Barack Obama's proposals and draws the press to the late front runner. If John McCain knows how to stop the cycle, he hasn't revealed it. Once upon a time, Obama reneged on a promise to limit public campaign...
Tuesday morning felt like Groundhog Day for many Belgians, who awoke to discover their Prime Minister had resigned...
...part, the Bush Administration has clearly made the calculation that getting a verifiable agreement on the North's nuclear program is worth pretty much any diplomatic price. In this it may actually be right, assuming the North finally gets beyond Groundhog Day, tells the world exactly what it has, and then gets rid of it. That would be a serious diplomatic achievement. But we're not there yet. And that's why, sometime in the next few months, Washington might quietly strike North Korea off the State Department's list of terror-sponsoring states - and then cross its fingers...