Word: scrapingly
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Gingrich still has to worry about Paxon. By resigning, Paxon earned some respect from both Newt supporters (who considered it the honorable thing to do) and critics (who praised Paxon for not trying to bow and scrape his way back into Newt's good graces). Already, Paxon supporters are saying he's well positioned to mount another challenge to Gingrich. "Bill's stature rose because he did the right thing," said a supporter. "But he's going to have to spend some time in the desert...
MUSIC: "With 77 newly released tracks," writes TIME's Richard Corliss, "RCA?s four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer...
...bulletin for a stolen black Nissan Pathfinder (Florida license plate LLM-782), thought to have been driven by Cunanan, and are scrutinizing a hotel security camera videotape which shows a man similar to the fugitive running down a nearby alleyway shortly after Versace's killing. In an effort to scrape up further leads, Attorney General Janet Reno and New offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Cunanan's capture. New York City Mayor Giuliani is offering an identical reward...
...shady fundraising tactics, Republicans still "out-raised" Democrats by a couple of hundred million dollars. We're proud of the fact that the rich fat cats (of this country) don't give our party as much money, but, as a result, it becomes necessary for Democrats to kick and scrape to approach the amount of cash the Republicans rake in. Fundraising comes easy to Republicans; Democrats have to reach for something more. The defenders of Clinton obviously recognize the ethical issues involved in his fundraising tactics. But as far as they're concerned, if they are going to donate their...
...even Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps we could use bits of dna that linger in their remains. We could raise the clones in structured isolation and see what they would do. If dna survives the decomposition of the human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone the dna and find out if the Man of the Shroud was just some 14th century monk, as carbon dating apparently reveals, or if he really was the Son of God. Then perhaps...