Word: kidded
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...Nixon's life was defined by a me-vs.-them resentment. In his mind, the 1960 presidential campaign was the battle of a Quaker poor boy, son of a grocer, against a Catholic rich kid, son of the whiskey merchant, and little Whittier College against mighty Harvard. (Yet after that very close election, which Kennedy won with some questionable vote counts in the crucial state of Illinois, Nixon overruled his aides' urging that he contest the result, saying that any delay in naming a new president would tear the country apart.) He felt scarred by outsider status even when...
808s & Heartbreak Using an ancient 808 drum machine for beats and a broken engagement for material, Kanye West turns in the most fascinating pop experiment since Radiohead's Kid A. The ghostly vocals and spare arrangements take getting used to, but the sound of his introspection is thrilling...
BRITNEY SPEARS: "I go through life like a Karate Kid...
...take a lot of credit for it. My parents did a fantastic job. The way my father described it to me as a kid, being on television is a career choice. It's a way of working, and you want to do that with integrity, but everybody works. I think that his common sense wore off on me a little...
...offense for a team struggling with it. Among his baskets was a tough drive and post-up basket in the first half, and then a lay-up after a pump fake and a nice runner in the lane in the second.“Oliver is a hard-working kid and he comes ready to play every day,” Lin said.—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu