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Papers take a day to set up veep's veep day Tuesday, and press needles are lurching toward G. The NYT holds a dignified pep rally: Bill Daley, suddenly, "in his short time here... seems to have significantly revived the once flagging morale of the Democratic campaign, both in Nashville and beyond." Gimme an A, Kevin Sack. WP leads section with another in "The Life of Al Gore" series - a Nakashima/Maraniss tale of Gore's near-obsessive responsiveness to his Tennessee constituents...
...pep talk to colleagues, House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt...
...such nihilistic homogenization, I went to Boston for an education. The National Trust for Historic Preservation helps towns reclaim their heritage through its Main Street program, and most of the 1,500 communities on board sent representatives to workshops in Boston, where the opening ceremony turned into a pep rally for the resurrection of the American downtown. The room was filled with stories of vacant storefronts reopening, of hard-fought triumphs over ridiculous zoning restrictions and blockheaded indifference to architectural heritage, of seniors moving like yuppies into hip lofts above Main Street shops. "We're a discard society," Moe told...
Teammates echoed Allard's sentiments and applauded Abeles for her leadership and positive influence on the team. She has been able to transfer her intensity and work ethic to younger players with a quiet yet powerful leadership style. Rather than pumping the team up with boisterous pre-game pep talks, she and co-captain Ghia Godfree simply performed with an infectious poise under pressure...
...time. Over the decades, marches on Washington degenerated, it seemed, into merely coercive shows of force, of political plumage display. Sometimes, of course - especially in the vast antiwar outpourings of the late '60s - they possessed anarchic energy. And they sometimes accomplished their purposes. But the art form (happening, circus, pep rally, Chautauqua, media spectacle, political threat) has devolved into special-interest pleading. In addition, there is the risk that good causes may be contaminated or embarrassed, as by appalling jokes during the recent gay and lesbian march on Washington, cracks that made Minister Farrakhan's interminable parsing of the mystical...