Word: muffin
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...conversation continues later, in a cafe at Aberdeen station waiting for the train to Edinburgh. Cameron is offered a muffin, and worries aloud that...
Britain's leader of the opposition isn't a typical alpha male. He's the kind of guy who pauses before biting into a muffin. "I really shouldn't," he says during a day of campaigning in Scotland. "I'm fat." That's not true, but like many an Englishman who ingested stodgy food at boarding school, David Cameron, 40, the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, lacks sharp angles. His telegenic appeal has propelled the Tories to a consistent lead in opinion polls for the first time since Tony Blair's 1997 victory. That has infused Britain's Conservatives...
...high, their hemlines low. Their bra straps do not peek out from under their shirts. A local newspaper recently ran an advice column counseling that girls should not get their ears pierced before the age of 18. Walking the residential lanes of Bangkok, you rarely see decolletage or muffin-tops, those rolls of flesh that peek out between hip-huggers and shrunken tank-tops. But then you turn a corner and a clutch of women gyrate in front of a bar in costumes that would make a Hooter's waitress blush. Cassius the schnauzer is the only one who doesn...
...ideology of scared media is me-too-ism: straining to show the audience you like what it likes, be it Harry Potter or Donald Rumsfeld. (He's tough! He's funny! He's a sex symbol! The Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him a "stud muffin.") With the worsening of Iraq, however, coverage became more assertive, and after Hurricane Katrina, reporters found they could question the Administration without being struck dead. With the "civil war" fight--as with erstwhile stud muffin Rumsfeld--the momentum has reversed. It's less important what the press is calling the war than that the White House...
...probably return to her table next to the window to skim her orgo readings. Her book bag contains chapstick, books from Lamont, extra squash balls, and the Premedical Handbook (aka, the Bible). She occasionally splurges on a donut, but calls D.D.’s low-fat blueberry muffin perfection...