Word: mindedness
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The smaller size, he says, is meant in part to prevent students from living with large numbers of like-minded people who would insulate them from the House community as a whole.
Two weeks later, when the rivals met again at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa, a gathering of 3,000 Democrats, Gore was even more aggressive. Again Bradley spoke first, lamenting the state of politics and wondering why he and Gore couldn't be more like home-run rivals...
Bradley didn't stand up--he regarded Gore's move as a transparent ploy, the kind of low gambit that was beneath him. Bradley's contempt for Gore--"He sees Al as a smaller guy," an adviser said at the time--blinded him to the seriousness of Gore's counterattack...
A strong-minded, pragmatic man, Kadriu resolved to avoid glimpsing any reflection of himself in puddles left by the rain, even though he needed them to drink from. For his psychological survival, this was probably a good tactic. So grotesque were his injuries that when he finally judged it safe...
Al Gore's challenge to George W. Bush in the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries - twice-a-week debates, joint town meetings, forswearing party soft money - sounded high-minded, but it was really wishful thinking. Without some sort of seismic shift in the ground rules, Gore faces a daunting...