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...first change I would propose is the scoring system. If the average person tunes into a golf tournament and sees someone posting a "- 8," the gut reaction might be "wow, that guy sucks so much he's losing points." To make golf more intuitive and to quench the odd American craving for high-scoring sports, I suggest giving players positive points (and lots of them) to award good shots...
...Birtwell said his shoulder was sore at points this morning, and at other points it wasn't, and I think that was him trying to gut it out, so I kept him out," Walsh said...
Bush, says an aide, thinks Gore is "a phony and a cutthroat" and cannot wait to take him on. While he doesn't quite know what to make of the Vice President, people close to him say, he has a gut dislike for him. Already you can hear it when he talks about Gore's "slash-and-burn politics": "Mr. Gore, I'm not going to let you get away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore...
Most politicians, including Bush, use the words right and wrong to talk about gut convictions, the values they live by. When Gore seizes upon an answer, it is because he is convinced that he has got hold of the truth--the demonstrable and provable and complicated truth. Instinct and, even worse, impulse have almost no room in his world. That doesn't mean Gore has no principles, only that he won't get into a fight until he thinks he can support those principles with every conceivable footnote. Some of his most conspicuous positions--pushing the Kyoto treaty on global...
...does not invite lingering. In fact, reading fast is the best way to get past such locutions as "Her breath came in pants" or this anatomically puzzling account of Tory and Cade together in bed for the first time: "His mouth all but savaged hers, ripping down to her gut with one jagged and panicked thrill...