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...There will be a lot more premium on retail politics," said Vince Dixon, former chair of Cambridge's Republican party. "And the incumbents are obsessive in doing these things. They touch every hand, they knock on every door...
...last time I picked up a hammer was in seventh-grade workshop. I invented split-level knock hockey because I couldn't get my plywood to stay even. If my shop teacher hadn't sent me to the library to avoid any major accidents, I might never have ended up an English major at Harvard...
...ethical standards for the first time, saying, "You shouldn't be judged by appearance. You ought to be judged by the fact." This reversal steamed White House aides. Asked what Sununu would have to do to really anger Bush, a bemused White House official cracked, "He'd have to knock over a bank, I guess...
...turning point of Thelma's character rests on one of the most enduring and infuriating male myths in the culture: the only thing an unhappy woman needs is good sex to make everything all right. After a night of knock-over- the-nightstand sex with the hitchhiker, Thelma comes down to the coffee shop suffused with satisfaction and tells Louise, "I finally understand what all the fuss is about." Thelma is transformed, more confident and buoyant than she has ever been, reducing her angst to the simplistic notion that she was stuck with a husband who was insufficiently accomplished...
Scientists know that the body puts up a pretty good fight against the AIDS virus (HIV) in the early years of infection. But the great mystery has always been why the body cannot knock HIV out completely. One possibility is that the body has trouble "seeing" all of the virus. Like a Stealth fighter plane, HIV may have hidden parts that do not show up on the immune system's radar screen. As a result, the body may not manufacture all the different kinds of antibodies that could attack the virus. "We thought that if we could make the virus...