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...answer how Bush is different, campaign aides often mention Condoleezza Rice, the African-American woman who worked as a foreign-policy adviser to both Ronald Reagan and Dubya's father and who serves as Dubya's guru on the subject. Says Hughes: "So people look at that and say a young, smart, creative African-American woman, who has worked for two Presidents, believes George Bush ought to be the next President...
...million Morris Popes. The 81-year-old retired train engineer has given at least $500 to the Atlanta Food Bank every year since 1982. One year he gave $1,200. And this on a retirement income of about $1,700 a month. He is almost too shy to mention the $3,000 he annually tithes to his First Corinth Missionary Baptist Church. "I look at how God has blessed me during my working years and raising my family, and I can't tell you how many times I've come to these homeless shelters and heard people say, 'My children...
...from?" he asked. In my experience, when immigrant cab drivers ask that question, they want to know your nationality--usually, that of your parents. Usually I mumble something about India, but for some idiotic reason I said "Georgia." "Really?" he said, now interested. I thought he was going to mention John Rocker. "From the former Soviet Union...
...have problems laughing naturally, practice in front of the mirror. In order to adopt the proper tone of voice, try slowing down your words (creating the impression Georgie is too slow to understand), lengthen your A's and strengthen your consonants. Most importantly, roll your eyes at the mention of his latest proposals. Accomplish in a simple gesture what you will then spend a few choice words on as you nail the lid on his coffin...
...title, in an ineffable way, catches the Al Gore spirit. You could not get the same effect with "Utility Rates in Chicago: A Revisionist View" or Utility Rates in San Diego: A Revisionist View." But Toronto works perfectly. Why? Because - to beat poor Leo's joke to death - the mention of Toronto somehow dials the mind to just that frequency (Gore's frequency!) at which it is possible to imagine a man of such suffocating worthiness that he might wish to propose, at some considerable length, "a revisionist view" of the already crushingly elaborated subject of the city's utility...