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...this talk that it's a mistake to give out specifics, I think, was premature," Gore says. "This is not about momentum, it's about substance. I think the best substance turns out in the end to be the best politics--that's a view some see as quaint, but I think it's true." Here Gore is executing a version of the Dick Morris game plan, using issues to gild himself and tar his opponent--hence the Democrats' ads attacking Bush's health-care record in Texas for leaving too many poor children without coverage. "Gore's ads make...
Cleary's parents learned soon after that the quaint Pennsylvania campus had been the site of 38 violent offenses in the three years before her death, and began pushing for legislation requiring disclosure of campus crime statistics, which...
...rounds off well-crafted answers with vague platitudes. On the course, he doesn't play to the crowds, even as they close in on him to be next to greatness. Woods has become the world's most popular athlete by comporting himself with a decorous dullness that is almost quaint. "Tiger has made it cool to be a golfer," says friend and rival David Duval. But Tiger's biggest accomplishment has come in making it cool to be Tiger...
...soon I discovered that everything that was "quaint," "colorful" or "romantic" could also be backwards, inconvenient and a nuisance. My inner American began to chomp her way to the surface. It turns out that Paris, the city of romance and lovers, is also a hotbed of sexual harassment...
...systems around the world. With CNN and AOL, we'll report both actively and interactively for print, television and the Internet. I say this not to brag, but so that some person sitting in this chair 52 years from now can find this page and be amused by how quaint we seem...