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...Brown hadn't been that good of a shooting team," Delaney-Smith said. "[But tonight] Brown shot very well--better than they've shot up until this point...
People are always stunned when widows arrive in Congress and know how to find the washroom, as if they hadn't been instrumental in getting their husbands elected in the first place. Carnahan may look like a grandmotherly Betty Crocker, but she has the steely resolve of Hillary Clinton coupled with the good sense not to have boasted about being a co-Governor. When her children were young and her husband was a municipal judge, she led drives for bond issues to raise money for parks and schools. As her husband worked his way up to Governor...
They called it the "Miracle on the Mat" when Rulon Gardner of Wyoming defeated Russia's Alexander Karelin for Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling earlier this year. Gardner, who had only enjoyed moderate success in his career, beat a man who hadn't been scored upon in ten years...
...Powell has remarkably few enemies - but his renown was earned as that of a no-nonsense facilitator who could make the trains run on time, rather than as a thinker or innovator. When the time came for war, he organized the winning team on Operation Desert Storm. But he hadn't exactly been gung ho about the need to fight in the first place. Powell had, in fact, expressed deep reservations about responding with military force to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. That, perhaps, was his job - after all, he was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...carefully calculated ultimatum. The two teams had been sequestered at nearby Bolling Air Force Base the previous week, making some progress in restarting peace talks ruptured by three months of Palestinian rioting that had left nearly 350 dead. But they "would still be flapping around" at Bolling if Clinton hadn't decided "to force the beginning of an end game," says an aide--eager to give credit to the President...