Word: knightly
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...guess is Phil Knight...
Clinton's elusiveness, as both a politician and a man, would also seem to make his presidency ripe for interpretation by popular culture. So take your pick: Is the President an irresponsible party boy, as in Republican Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power, or a slow-to-anger knight in shining armor, as in Democrat Rob Reiner's The American President? Or maybe he's just a compassionate fellow who lives to minister to fatally ill kids, as in A Child's Wish, a recent TV movie on cbs. That President was played in a cameo by Bill Clinton, which made...
...team which will emerge from the American League is Cleveland. Remember how Seattle almost beat them in 1995? A similar thing will happen in their epic seven-game series. Ken Griffey, Jr., will drop a routine fly ball in the ninth inning of the decisive game. Phil Knight weeps bitter tears...
...feed on itself. In 1994 Shakur was shot outside a New York City recording studio being used by Wallace and Sean "Puffy" Combs, the head of Wallace's record label, Bad Boy Entertainment. Shakur survived and accused Wallace and Combs of being involved in the attack. In 1995 Suge Knight, the controversial head of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records (now serving nine years in prison for violating probation on an assault conviction), lured Shakur to his label in part by playing up the tensions between East Coast rappers (like Wallace) and West Coast rappers (like Shakur). Later, when Shakur...
Move 16 is when Deeper Blue pauses to "think." Finally, its human monitor announces, "F4." F4? An excited buzz sweeps the room. F4! Deeper Blue has advanced the knight's pawn two squares, loosening its kingside defense with an assumption of the superiority of its position that would surely be considered arrogant if a carbon-based life-form were making it. "This move was special," murmurs Joel Benjamin, a former U.S. champion and current Deep Blue consultant. The room nods in agreement. Deeper Blue is thinking...