Word: lifter
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...Americans don't like George W. Bush as a nail-biting diplomat - but they like him as a fighter. They like him as a clear thinker, a heavy lifter, someone who tells it like it is and then tells how it's going to be. They like him in black and white, and now that he's waist-deep in the Middle East mess he might as well...
...Think Bridget Jones's Diary meets reality TV. From Polyester Lester in Alaska premiumpolar.com/polyester) who just started a band and wants to know what you think of his haircut, to Becky in France mybluehouse.com/weblog) who can teach you how to brew a Scotch cocktail called a kilt lifter, bloggers star in their own never-ending soap opera. The result is less intrusive than a webcam but somehow more revealing...
...across the globe were postponed. In the ensuing weeks, a slew of players - some members of Austria's soccer team and English cricketers Andrew Caddick and Robert Croft, to give but a few examples - pulled out of international commitments, citing safety concerns. Not that everybody was daunted. U.S. weight lifter Jackie Berube financed her own trip to compete in the World Weight-Lifting Championships in Turkey after the sport's governing body in the U.S. decided it was too dangerous. And 1,000 Irish fans went to Iran to see Ireland qualify for the World...
...their sons' eyes. "Boys are fed a diet of 'ideal' male bodies, from Batman to the stars of the WWF," he says. "So parents need to tell their boys--starting when they are small--that they don't have to look like these characters." Pope, himself an avid weight lifter, says parents should also educate themselves and their sons on the uses and dangers of supplements such as adrenal hormones. "Any kid can go into a store and buy 'andro' [formerly Mark McGwire's bulk-up drug, androstenedione] legally," he says, "but we still don't know what long-term...
...selectively benign attitude of the Bush team toward manual recounts - do them or don't do them, just get them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...