Word: knighting
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John McCain spent the past year trying to show the differences between him and Bush. So now when it behooves him, he casts those marked differences aside? This certainly doesn't sound like the white knight of the government corruption fight. But upon further review it seems consistent with the John McCain that exists beneath the veil of heroism with which the media adorned...
...Kids on the Block, two of whom have made praiseworthy efforts at pulling mildly successful independent careers from the wreckage that was NKOTB. Although the boys are teen idols no more (they are both in their late 20s), fans in the under-13 age bracket continue to adore Jordan Knight (winner of Single of the Year for "Give It to You") and Joey McIntyre (winner of Outstanding Video for "I Love You Came Too Late"). I was entirely flabbergasted to see both of them called to the stage at various points during the evening, as I wasn't aware there...
...directors of the Nieman Foundation and the John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford University also both resigned during last 18 months...
Magazines like Teen Beat have not changed much over the ages. Where the visages of Kurt Cameron, Debbie Gibson and Jordan Knight once stood now stand James "Cut Your Hair" Van Der Beek, Jessica Simpson and, um, Jordan Knight. But one aspect that has changed significantly in the past few years is the coverage of music. Traditionally obsessed with teen pop sensations, Teen Beat, J-14 and other teen trash journals have assimilated the world of alternative rock into its corpus of cool kids...
...very unlikely white knight is galloping over the hill to rescue the American public from the grips of penny-pinching health maintenance organizations: Just call him Dr. Deception. As more people depend on managed care programs for their routine medical care, doctors are increasingly bucking the HMO guidelines in order to give their patients the treatment they need. According to an article published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 39 percent of doctors surveyed in 1998 admitted to having deceived insurance companies at least once. And 54 percent of those physicians reported their rate of deception...