Word: roping
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...race because of prostate cancer. Finding someone to take on Clinton this time around has been harder for the G.O.P. The party's top choice, former Westchester County prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, quit the contest in December. The White House last month turned to Manhattanite Kathleen McFarland to play rope-a-dope, though Empire State Republicans believe the nomination will eventually go to former Yonkers mayor John Spencer. The best title the Republicans could come up with for McFarland was "former Reagan Pentagon official." No matter who emerges to challenge Clinton, both parties will treat the race as a useful warm...
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Brokeback Mountain may be an Oscar frontrunner, but who would have thought country-western singer Willie Nelson would also be celebrating gay rope slingers? His song Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other) (sample lyric: "Inside every cowboy there's a lady that'd love to slip out") has been climbing the iTunes charts. TIME's Clayton Neuman asked him about...
...reporters at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Kwan did not let on that she had actually strained a muscle during a fall at the practice session just an hour before. "Yesterday I woke up stiff, so I headed to the rink early to do my usual jump rope and stretching (to warm up before getting on the ice)," she said on Sunday. "Twenty minutes (into the session), I was still stiff, and tried to skate it off, but I was not at ease. I did three jumps, and on the triple flip, when I flipped out, I knew...
...wealth. But former neighbors say he was born almost penniless, growing up in Sadulpur, a small Rajasthani town in an area of thorn trees and sand dunes in western India, in a house built by his grandfather. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brick yard. "They didn't have any income," says Sushil Kumar Saraogi, 61, editor of the weekly Sadulpur Times. "They scraped by on what the father had managed to rescue. They were very poor." Shankar Lal Saraogi, 78, Mittal's uncle...