Word: poopers
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...Still, it's not something that any country can easily walk away from - not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums. There's a political cost, too, in being seen to duck a discussion of racism. Instead, the U.S. and some of its European allies are looking to make the menu more palatable. They want to expunge the two most controversial items: discussions of reparations for slavery and colonialism, and of Zionism as racism. Washington has warned that if those topics are still on the agenda come conference time...
...perpetual Career Day intended to help him better understand his constituents, Graham began sampling various jobs in 1974 while a Florida state legislator. Since then, he has spent a day a month working such jobs as teacher, Winn-Dixie bag boy, construction worker (see left) and horse-stable pooper scooper ("I kept the ring clear, so that people weren't odoriferously impacted," he reports). For his gig as a US Airways steward, Graham is boning up on his safety speech and his mixed drinks. "Of course, we'll be encouraging everyone to drink orange juice," he says...