Word: scooter
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...wasn't busy filming blockbuster comedies that played off his lovable slacker image or writing smart scripts like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums with his friend from Texas, director Wes Anderson, Wilson's life as documented by the tabloids consisted of tossing a football at the beach, riding his scooter alongside his dog, Garcia, and dating whatever impossibly beautiful woman he wanted. The gossip site Defamer.com awarded Wilson the moniker "The Butterscotch Stallion," a nod to his, er, appetite for female companionship...
...Stengel, who told him he'd be a better shoeshine boy than ballplayer when he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Phil Rizzuto would not have won seven World Series rings, the American League MVP award in 1950 or election to the Hall of Fame. The Yankee great, nicknamed Scooter, then found his voice as a folksy, rambling and partisan Yankee announcer, calling games until...
...Haimei, Qianjiang's chief in Pesaro, is to watch Benelli's balance sheet, leaving design and production in the hands of the Italians. Both the Chinese and Italian managers emphasize that the aim is to boost the Italian brand while improving the performance of the smaller and simpler Chinese scooters. It's a question of knowing your markets. The 500cc motorcycles popular with European and American riders are not even permitted on Chinese roads. Says Marconi: "In China they've produced the same scooter for the past 20 years." Marconi says the equation is not mysterious: Italy has the know...
...Canadian who follows the American political scene closely, I was shocked and dismayed by your President's decision to meddle in the Scooter Libby case. What a sorry example for American youth. It is apparently O.K. to lie to cover your backside and that of your boss. Bush's intervention in the Libby case is not only an insult to your judicial system, but it is also an abuse of Executive power. Barry Mayhew, VICTORIA, B.C., CANADA...
...glad Bush commuted Libby's sentence. There are too many people in U.S. prisons already. Besides, I don't feel any less safe with Scooter remaining loose and weird on the streets. But if I were in any way complicit in exposing the identity of a U.S. secret agent to our enemies during a time of war - which is in effect what happened with the outing of CIA operative Plame - I would be called a traitor and duckwalked to an electric chair, gas chamber or some form of lethal injection. Sterling Greenwood, ASPEN, COLORADO...