Word: neck
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...neutral observer that without a record label or new album to promote, he still has the magnetism lacking in many bands today. Always the showman, he appeared onstage looking like a fetish version of Elvis in a black PVC outfit and launched into "A Swallow On My Neck." The lesser-known song started the show on a weaker note, but Morrissey's jovial mood and his backing band's incredibly tight, focused musicality only created momentum...
That second albatross--which even still continues to dangle around Harvard's neck--is Ivy League-leading Penn, whom the Crimson have not beaten since...
...party crashers is one reason McCain is suddenly running neck and neck with Bush in Michigan polls. But another is that many of the newcomers may be united nearly as much by their dislike of Engler as by their excitement about McCain. The Governor has annoyed a lot of Michiganders since he was first elected in 1990, and he is finding that he is almost as big an issue in the upcoming primary as the candidates. Residents of Detroit are unhappy with the way the state took over the school board and eliminated a residency requirement for city employees. Some...
...think McCain's definition of honor begins with a willingness to risk your neck for a cause without making a big deal about it. For a cause to be a cause it must, at least initially, be unpopular. McCain's distaste for polls grows out of his need to champion unpopular causes. He has a romantic belief that if you lead a Good Life, you will know instinctively the right thing to do, and you can lead others to that knowledge...
...Sunday threw its support behind Bush and threatened to pull their votes from the GOP if John McCain were elected the party's nominee. While this would appear to be a welcome endorsement for Bush - especially in conservative South Carolina, where Bush and McCain are engaged in a neck-and-neck race for this Saturday's Republican presidential primary - it leaves him in a tricky position. He risks being seen as too cozy with Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative organization when he knows the coalition's positions on abortion and other hot-button social issues are unlikely to fly with...