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...George ran an effective campaign, but Al defeated Al. The veep emerged from the primaries with barely a scratch and should have dominated the issue wing of the campaign. Instead, he focused on winning this election as the volunteer Vietnam veteran with vision. In this unprecedented period of electoral limbo, Al has shown that he is a fighter at heart, though cynics argue that he only fought genuinely because his political future was on the brink...
...that doesn't even scratch the first vein of this gold mine," the elder said, chuckling. "Just think about it for a minute. Say it's Bush after all. You'll have a President who may well wind up with fewer votes than the other guy. And the Republicans will have maybe five votes to spare in the House and maybe one vote to spare in the Senate. Might even be 50-50. But look what some folks in his own party want from him--maybe ease up on the environment, maybe start naming those pro-life judges...
...other hand, when that train is wrecked, he is the only survivor--not a scratch on him. This interests Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is Dunn's obvious opposite--an elegant, well-spoken dude who runs an upscale store dealing in original comic-book art. He is also afflicted by a congenital illness that causes his bones to shatter on the slightest contact--reason enough, one imagines, to account for his cranky manner...
Central Square's proponents say that creating a new facility from scratch would be better than simply adding on to an outdated building...
...which everybody gets to maintain their current lifestyles, while Detroit miraculously comes up with all manner of energy-efficient electronic engines to power their SUVs. This is not for a moment to underestimate the importance of such innovations, but simply to suggest that they're only going to scratch the surface of the problem...