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...them with a jazzy reveille of facts and innuendos and get them involved. "There's millions of you on the sidelines," Moore notes, "and I'm like the coach saying, 'Come on, bench, get in the game!'" And play for which side? That's easy to guess. Moore's mantra is that he made the film to prevent Bush's re-election--or, as many Democrats would say, election, given that they believe the first time he was appointed by the Supreme Court...
Politicians tend to campaign somewhere in mid-mainstream. In the past election, voters could choose between a candidate who called himself born again, argued for more federal funding for faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...
...early recordings, like ?It Should?ve Been Me? and ?Greenbacks,? he adopts the nasal whisper of a race-track tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were primitive and primal. The lyrics to ?Don?t You Know? might be maddeningly, mantra-ingly repetitive (?Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl, I?m in love with you so?). But those are just words: the first sound...
Finding himself in search of a new activity his junior year, after having quit the football team, Corker set out to revive House spirit in Mather by applying lessons from the House’s own past: as co-head of Mather House Council (HoCo) in 2003, his mantra was to make Mather regain its bygone reputation as the Party House, or, as Corker likes to put it, “the House that beer built...
...commercial network, Nickelodeon (or Nick, as it is universally called) is out to make money. Keeping viewers attached solidly to their seats is the traditional way to do that. But Nick also wants to be more than just a medium for selling toys and sugary processed food. "Our mantra is, what's good for kids is good for business," says Marva Smalls, chief of staff for Nick and its sister networks, including Nick at Nite and TV Land. "So we have a history of trying to help kids deal with tough issues...