Word: lap
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...never occurred to me, something that I would have said was simply beyond me. I went through Harvard with vague ideas of graduate school (while trying not to think about what speaking in front of a college class would do to me), hoping something would fall into my lap that would answer all my questions...
Obama still can't totally shake Clinton, and the flap over her Robert F. Kennedy comment ensures further intraparty strife. But some Republicans see McCain as ill-defined to voters and slipping in the polls, even before Obama's likely victory-lap bump...
...toned down her criticism of Obama, and various Democrats close to the Clinton camp hinted that the New York Senator may at least be positioning herself for a future role in the Obama campaign. Earlier this week, Clinton operatives took umbrage at Obama's plan to take a victory lap in Iowa Tuesday night, noting that such in-your-face declarations only alienate women voters who may feel that that, once more, a man had deprived a woman of a sure thing - voters Obama would need in the fall. That's partly party psychological war, of course, but it seemed...
...longer matter, his meaning filling the space once his presence is gone? "Is that Grandpa?" our 4-year-old wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this, how the arms that held her and the lap she sat in were no longer him. "You know how when we go to Florida, we leave our winter coats at home because we won't need them there? Well, he just left this behind because he doesn't need it anymore." And this appeared to make perfect sense...
Meyer wrote twilight in three months flat. "I know to the day when I became a writer," she says. "One day. Which is cool." Once she'd had the dream, she wrote like a woman struck by lightning, barely sleeping, typing one-handed with a baby in her lap. (At the time, she was taking care of three children under the age of 5.) Even now she does her writing in an open office area in the middle of the house. She's not interested in a room of her own. "I can't close doors and write. Even...