Word: hangings
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Just as you're getting the hang of this backing and forthing between two disembodied heads, here comes another jump cut, and a third face looms large on your screen. This one, unlike the other two, looks jowly and weather-beaten and could use a shave. What does this face have to do with the game, if indeed a game is still going on? And then the truth dawns: you are being shown the manager of one of the two teams, sitting presumably in one of the two dugouts. You are, in short, watching the manager watch the field...
...WHOM YOU HANG OUT WITH Who has the most influence on kids--parents or peers? Last year's controversial theory held that only friends have sway over how a child thinks and acts. But a new survey suggests that when it comes to prejudicial attitudes and stereotypes about race or religion, among other characteristics, fellow teens have very little influence on their contemporaries. Reason: peers may have more impact on behavior than on attitudes...
There may be only two practical ways to deal with the question of privacy for candidates, and neither relies on the self-restraint of the press, since that is a forlorn hope. The first is the "let it all hang out" approach, in which the candidate answers every question, truthfully, and relies on the good sense of the people to weigh the importance of what is disclosed. There is good reason to believe, post-Clinton, that we have arrived at a time in which the public can sort out what's important and what is merely embarrassing. Do most candidates...
Late 20th century entrepreneurs have invented high-adrenaline sports--hang-gliding, say, or canyoning. But the riskiest adventure is still to set forth upon open water and take a chance when, as the great single-handed sailor Joshua Slocum wrote a century ago, "the sea is in its grandest mood...
...power. He and his wife Betty had been worrying about furniture and drapes for the new Vice President's residence up on Observatory Hill. Ford knew a political fire storm was on the way. But he kept hearing whispers from others about Nixon's ambivalence: fight, don't fight, hang in, resign. "I was 90% certain that sooner or later he had to resign," recalled Ford. "I was certain the die was cast for impeachment. If Nixon had decided to fight the House and the Senate, it would have been a terrible thing for the country...