Word: outcasts
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...Still McCain doesn't have George W's last name or Steve Forbes' wallet, and in the campaign business, a maverick needs one or the other. "The same iconoclastic stands that won McCain his reputation have alienated the Republican establishment," says Carney. "He's a real outcast, and he needs money." Carney says there's always a chance that McCain could hit it off with the public and "catch a wave" in the primaries. But the realities are that he'd be a lot better off if he'd gotten that soft-money ban past Trent Lott last spring. Anyone...
...growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd"--or becoming an outcast...
...therefore I should love it. But, that gets hard to believe that when I am always the only one of my friends that isn't asked to school dances. I mean, I like dancing solo better, but I am beginning to feel like a social outcast. Part of me keeps reminding myself that I wouldn't want to go to the dance with a boy that didn't like me for who I am, but it gets kind of depressing staying home and dancing with my younger brother. Do you think I should just suck...
...problem for each woman is that for now, her strength in Washington State is her weakness in Washington, D.C. Murray is playing softball in a game where they always throw at your head, and Smith's militant independence makes her an outcast in her own party. But to their credit, neither is going to change anytime soon...
...expect them to be arrested in their physical development at about age five. But that's Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) for you: mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through a chain of mix-ups, mishaps and coincidences of the kind only a perversely playful...