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G.O.P. leaders on the Hill viewed Gore with suspicion even before the Florida ruckus, thanks to his role as Clinton's "bad cop" during the budget battles and government shutdowns of 1995. That's why Gore now would have to find someone to play bad cop for him, so he could rise above the fray and try to enlarge the notion of his presidency in the public mind. Nominees for the bad-cop job include Lieberman and Daschle, both of whom have a way with the velvet hammer. It would give Lieberman something to do, because nobody around Gore would...
...notoriously terse Spike Lee is a daunting task in itself. Interviewing Spike Lee about a new film that threatens to shatter our perceptions of race relations and expose all our recent "progress" as phony is almost too much to handle. After all, Bamboozled, his new film, is causing a ruckus all over the country as it slowly rolls out into theaters and there's no question that it will continue to spark debate long after its run is over...
...What started out so simple, ended up a big ruckus," he sighs...
...hard to overestimate the effect of a winning legacy, and while Knight has not been particularly successful in recent years, he maintains his aura as a winner. It's that winning tradition, explains Gayton, that may be enough to keep players from causing too much of a ruckus over Knight's "idiosyncrasies." And in the world of sports, such outbursts are hardly the exception. Just as there is a long tradition of coaches whose enthusiasm has bordered on abuse, there are probably plenty of lower-rung Bob Knights running basketball, football and hockey programs around the country right...
...matter, whether they were worth all the fanfare they received in the first place). Their enthusiasm, gratitude and apparently genuine pleasure to be in attendance at the Awards (along with their still cute countenances) were met with a cacophony of young hoots and shrieks. Of course, much of the ruckus was due to carousing anti-establishment types like the group of twenty-something Goths sitting next to me, who amused themselves to no end by chanting "We love you Joey" whenever the Not-So-New Kid got anywhere near the stage. But even their cheers, dripping with sarcasm, were reflective...