Word: messes
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...music's no good, give them plenty else to look at: every performance should come with lasers, fireworks, odd costumes and moving sets. It's all about distraction, distraction, distraction. Except when it comes to Amy. Don't mess with...
...person Clooney will mess with-the thing he keeps coming back to the more we drink-is what a massive loser Bill O'Reilly is. It's an irrational feud because every time O'Reilly gets to be as important as Clooney, O'Reilly comes out way ahead. But Clooney can't help himself. He keeps talking about O'Reilly, and the little traps he's set for him and how thrilled he is when he falls into them. It's as if Clooney loves O'Reilly because he gives him permission to be an irrational 8-year-old. Maybe...
...there will be chaos. The Turks will attack the north. The Iranians will take over the south." I pointed out that the same may or may not be true if we leave in 10 ... or 100 years, as John McCain has defiantly suggested. "Yes, you have created quite a mess for us," he said, not quite accurately; the mess was created 90 years ago by Europeans drawing foolish lines on a map they barely understood. Bush's feckless invasion had tossed a hand grenade into a house of cards-and now there was the stunning realization that only an exhausted...
...country's constitution and established emergency rule on Nov. 3. Many of those judges are believed to view Musharraf's controversial election last year to a second presidential term as unconstitutional. Both the PPP and the PML-N also want Musharraf gone. "What we need to clean up the mess is to get back to the beginning," says PPP media coordinator Farahnaz Ispahani. Ultimately both parties share the same goal, she added. "We are like husband and wife. We share love, but we disagree about how to raise the children. We all want to see an independent judiciary...
...distinction without a difference if ever there was one. Voters make their decisions at a far more visceral level than that. When they're surly - as they are now - they look for a credible candidate who's as different as possible from the incumbent who made the existing mess. When they're happy - as they were, for example, in 1988 - they look for someone as similar as possible. The precise placement of the incantatory word "change" on a campaign poster is too nuanced even to be noticed, let alone to sway a vote...