Word: lames
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...LAME GAME...
...cage, kept Iraq's chaos in the newspapers. The cumulative burdens helped explain Blair's surprise pre-operative pledge to quit before the end of his next term - assuming he gets re-elected - probably around his 10-year mark in office. This officially starts his transformation to lame duck. At least he'll have somewhere to retreat to: the Blairs have just bought a $6.5 million house in a posh London neighborhood...
...been wrong to block an aborted 2000 bid by WorldCom/MCI, for rival telecom firm Sprint. Some were not impressed during the hearings. "Coming in as an antitrust novice is a very tough exercise," says David Wood, a Brussels-based lawyer for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, "but it was a lame performance. She has to pick up a gear or two." - By Peter Gumbel In Need Of A Remedy Shares in Merck plunged almost 27% in a day's trading after the U.S. pharma firm withdrew its Vioxx arthritis drug due to fears that it put users at greater risk...
...live in a divided nation. Thus there are two schools of thought on Joey, the 800-lb. gorilla of new TV shows (NBC, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), starting Sept. 9. Friends was lame, ergo Joey will be lame. Friends was genius, and ... perhaps we need to give Joey a chance. After the failure of every one of the Seinfeld-alum shows, few think Matt LeBlanc's much-hyped solo sitcom is a guaranteed success. In the first episode the still none-too-bright Joey moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He moves in with his sister (Drea...
Kerry's obvious frustration with his self-imposed straitjacket not only leads him into lame forays like the troop-deployment gaffe but also to some tortured circumlocutions about the war. Most spectacular was spokesman James Rubin's recent statement that a President Kerry "in all probability" would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein by now. Oh really? I thought Kerry's position was that he would have waited for U.N. inspectors to complete their process--which, we now know, would not have produced evidence of illegal arms--and that he would have gone to war only with a supple...