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...decent guys tried and failed. Tim Duncan, Karl Malone, and O’Neal, for example. A few bad apples also tried—Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley, Iverson—but it didn’t stick...
Some of the quotidian expressions of political activity, like party fund raising, have been curtailed. Karl Rove, the President's chief political strategist, continues to make sure that key constituencies are not forgotten; but for the first time in Bush's political life, Rove and Hughes no longer attend the President's most important meetings. Vice President Dick Cheney, whose star had dimmed since the spring, is back, front and center. If Bush is taking the role of the outside player, the public spokesman, the emotional leader of the Administration and the nation, Cheney is the inside man, the operations...
...snarls that winds up tasting a bit like elevator music on acid. While the soul of it may be elusive at times, the surprises keep coming. Much of the album is reminiscent of the recent explosion of electronic jazz, headed up by the likes of St. Germain and Karl Denson, but “Another Day,” is an electronic fantasy on Santana’s “Guajira,” (though unattributed). “Soul Drive Sixth Avenue” digs a little deeper into funk territory as the keys croak with...
Bush had responded like a CEO trying to get back to business. He dispatched top adviser Karl Rove on a mission to tell Major League Baseball and the National Football League to start playing again as soon as possible and to improve their security at stadiums. He resisted the aides who wanted him to state bluntly in his address on Tuesday night that the nation was at war. But by Wednesday Bush was embracing the enormity of the moment. It was not going to be like everyday life in America, not for a while, and he knew it was time...
...quite make it in the U.S. major leagues, bouncing around among three teams over six seasons. But he is making the most of his new career far from home, displaying the kind of resilience that, as a kid, earned him his nickname. As a six-year-old, young Karl was hit squarely in the eye by a baseball - and didn't cry. "You sure are a tough one," the coach said. Sayonara, Karl. Hello, Tuffy...