Word: impressment
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That wasn't enough to impress Clinton in the primaries. She enjoyed noting that Obama was chairman of a Senate subcommittee yet had never convened a substantive hearing. John McCain's campaign will not be any more dazzled. In a sense, the question of Obama's preparation hinges on data that are still being gathered, because his greatest accomplishment is this unfolding campaign. For a man given to Zen-like circularities - "We are the change we seek" - the best proof that he can unite people to solve problems might be his ability to unite them to win an election...
...told my coach it's hard for me to understand I swam the perfect race and lost by 0.01 sec. He said, 'Look, you went into the Olympics fifth in the world, and now you've got a silver medal.' " Three of them, actually, which is certain to impress her 2-year-old daughter Tessa, back home. "After 2000, I didn't have anything to go home to, but now I have my daughter to go home to. I get home on Tuesday, and I'm taking my daughter to school on Thursday, so I've got a list...
...stadium bristled with plumage, war paint and woven lava-lavas as the various island delegations (Papua New Guinea sent 170 people) vied for the audience's affections. "There was a highly competitive air," observes Wesley Enoch, artistic director of Australia's delegation, "especially around the dancing. They want to impress - who can be the best, who can get the crowd whipped...
Olympics or no Olympics, people in Hong Kong are generally not the dissenting kind. Chan, though, has been an exception - attracting consistent press attention in the run-up to the Summer Games. Slender and chicly dressed, she looks more like the girl whom you'd want to impress in seminar than a menace to society. But after staging a defiant protest when the Olympic torch passed through Hong Kong in May, the 21-year-old university student became Hong Kong's activist poster child. She also became the bête-noire of many who see her as a photogenic...
...blow-dry, for the unbeatable price of zero yuan. "They wrap you in," says Canadian field-hockey player Ravinder Kahlon. "They're like 'Hair! Wash!' Next thing you know I'm getting a cut." You need the right 'do for the medal stand, don't you? (And to impress that stunning Brazilian volleyball player.) Plus, too thick a coif can slow you down in the Beijing heat...