Word: seems
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Funny thing about timing, though. It turns out that this may be the perfect time for a candidate with doubts. People like him without knowing much about him because he doesn't seem to want it too much. What could be more appealing, coming after a President who started running before he could walk and seemed willing to sacrifice anyone to win and hold onto the White House? And how better to reach out to voters who think the system is rotten but are too detached even to be disgusted anymore? Bush's wife Laura has the campaign slogan...
From that point on, say the Governor's allies, he threw his back into the race. Within the Bush camp, the dominant conversation ever since has been how to manage these expectations--with the answer that if you keep talking about how high they are, it will seem too conventional for reporters to write about how he failed to meet them, and so maybe, just maybe, the news cycle will smile on them and the counterintuitive story of the debut will be that Bush actually lived up to them. How else to explain the name of the plane that ferried...
...guns. But now Washington has unleashed a set of proposals designed to prevent kids from watching their favorite stars threatened with grisly deaths. Many politicians are hoping that by reining in violent imagery, they can prevent future Columbines--or at least convince constituents that they are trying to. Americans seem receptive: 64% of the respondents in a TIME/CNN poll said they favor legislation to restrict teenagers' access to violent and sexually explicit entertainment...
...surprisingly, she grew into a dutiful, uninspired reader. I tried to steer her toward the books I had loved as a child--the ones I read by flashlight under the covers--but she never took to Little House on the Prairie or Nancy Drew. She didn't seem to enjoy biographies of sports legends or suffragettes, as I had at her age. She treated reading much as I did--like...
Detroit's reputation as a tough, working-class city also gives its performers credibility in the rap world. Eminem's bad-boy poses on his album The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope) seem more believable because he hails from the Detroit area rather than, say, Palo Alto, Calif...