Word: pal
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...Hard Sell at Home: If Chavez has learned one thing from his idol Fidel Castro, it's how to summon the threat of the U.S. to distract his countrymen from problems at home. And if there is one thing Uribe has learned from his pal George W. Bush, it's how to manipulate the terrorist threat to amass greater executive power. But a cross-border war would most likely backfire on both men - especially Chavez, whose strategy this time may have been a miscalculation, as Venezuelans haven't exactly taken to the streets to answer his martial call. Chavez plans...
...fact, he still seems to be enjoying the novelty of it all.“I started freelancing for The New Republic when I was in law school, but I always thought it was going to be just a hobby,” Toobin says. Equal parts pundit and pal, Toobin is in his element translating arcane legal-ese into plain English. And that he credits to Harvard Law.Toobin’s school ties are thick and fast: he met his wife, Amy B. McIntosh ’80, as an undergraduate, and his law school classmate and good...
...surest signs of a campaign in trouble are the hokey stories about confounding expectations. You could hear a bunch of those stories on the campaign trail with Rudy Giuliani this week. His pal Jon Voight recalled how it looked like he had no chance to get cast in Midnight Cowboy in 1968. His campaign chairman Bill McCollum recalled how it looked like the Republicans had no chance to take back Congress in 1994. And the candidate told a few confounding-expectations stories himself about beating the Mafia and taming New York: I've been doing the impossible all my life...
...They gather at a surprise going-away party for young Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David): his gal pal Lily (Jessica Lucas), his would-be girlfriend Beth (Odette Yustman), his best bud Hud (T.J. Miller) and a pretty stray named Marlena Diamond (Lizzy Caplan). Early on, Hud is given the job of documenting the event with a video camera. The movie spends its first 20 mins. introducing you to a bunch of people, most of whom will be dead by min. 30. All you have to know: Rob had a brief affair with Beth and wants to get back...
...suppose someone does crack. Say Clemens gives a tearful confession. Say Pettitte, who is a strong witness since he already copped to McNamee's allegations against him in the Mitchell report, rats out his pal and training partner. None of this would make the Mitchell report "entirely" credible. Just because Mitchell got Clemens right, that doesn't mean he is right about the 70 or so other players who haven't corroborated the claims against them...