Word: picnics
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Managing the Senate with a one-vote majority hasn't been a picnic; Daschle likens it to "loading frogs on a wheelbarrow." Senate Democrats are a fractured--and fractious--bunch, including liberals itching to blast Bush, Southern "Dealocrats" who want to compromise with the White House, and presidential wannabes with their eyes on the 2004 prize. Daschle, who keeps an index card in his shirt pocket with favors that the Senators want each day, can sit for hours listening to their complaints. He has cultivated all of them, says majority whip Harry Reid, by "convincing each Senator that...
This March, Spinowitz took Day back to the playground of the Hebrew School where they first met for a picnic dinner...
...President’s receptions moved to the Master’s open houses, the sumptuous spreads became the parent picnic, but the spirit lives in the public wit of the class day speech...
...devises a new scam. Pretending to be a single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas Hoult). He's bullied at school, and his mom (Toni Collette) is a mess, clinging to an outmoded hippie lifestyle and suicidally inclined. The kid sees in detached and manipulative Will a surrogate father whose isolation matches his own. Maybe...
...Phnom Kulen is the holiest mountain in Cambodia and a picnic destination for Khmer families. But few foreigners visit. On this peak in 802, King Jayavarman II declared himself a Hindu god-king and kicked off the four-century Angkor period of Khmer history that produced the Angkor temples, constructed of Phnom Kulen's sandstone. The Khmer Rouge used the mountain as a final stronghold for two decades after losing power in 1979, so it's only been three years since visitors have again been able to enjoy the cool waters and artistic treasures...