Word: marathoning
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...that's as close as Gore will come to admitting the truth: he can't stand politics. To be precise, he does enjoy a few things about campaigning (counterpunching opponents, gaming out tactics, serving up red-meat rhetoric, tutoring voters during marathon town meetings), but he loathes the rest and isn't good at hiding how he feels. And it's intriguing that Gore, who is so often accused of being artificial and insincere, has his greatest difficulty with the most artificial and insincere parts of the process: bonding with the local party pooh-bahs, pretending that donors are friends...
...modern" Olympics, which began in 1896, did not include women, founder Pierre de Coubertin being of the opinion that a woman's "organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks." No wonder it took until 1984 for women to be allowed to run the Olympics' signature event, the marathon. No organisms were shocked...
...beloved city. The decision was a triumph for Philadelphia's corps of revivalists, long dedicated to bolstering their city's battered image, and struck fear into the hearts of city workers, who knew the spotlight would cast an unforgiving glare on urban blight. And that meant a marathon of scrubbing, painting, trimming and pruning... not to mention a few instances of creative camouflage...
...Toys, right across from the Corn Dog 7, you'll find a storefront occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education--and urging shoppers to sign up their kids. "I can already see the day when parents of newborns will call...
...know one thing's for sure. On Monday morning I will be boarding the subway with eyes puffy from my marathon-reading of my newly acquired "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." I'm sure there will be many other adults there just like me. I hope you will be one of them...