Word: shadowed
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...came to looks,. extremely important in popularity contests like elections, Roosevelt had the unshakeable advantage. There are those who believe that Richard M. Nixon would have beaten John F. Kennedy '40 in 1960 were it not for one televised debate. Those who watched Nixon's five o' clock shadow and glowingly pale suit with horror can sympathize with the causes of Bachrach and Barrett...
Guterson's particular gift is for description: he takes you into one fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred to by Census takers as "Jap Number 1 ... laughing Jap, dwarf...
...mother Jeanne initially balked, fearful that having lost her daughter, she would now lose her husband during surgery. But the patient himself insisted, saying, "It would be a joy to have Patti's heart." The rest of the family agreed. "That was what Patti would have wanted, beyond a shadow of a doubt," said Bob. It would "make Patti the happiest little angel in heaven." In less than six hours last Monday, her heart was removed, surrounded with ice, flown 600 miles to Michigan and deposited in her father, where it began beating again. Szuber is listed in good condition...
...Tutsi opposition to make more demands, creating a dangerous stalemate. "There is a government, but the whole structure is weak and barely functioning," says a Western diplomat in Bujumbura. "There are 27 ministers, 11 of whom are from the opposition. There is an interim President afraid of his own shadow." The Tutsi-dominated military hovers in the background, alert for an opportunity to take power. And more than 230,000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda complicate any attempts to govern: an exodus from the French protected zone could add tens of thousands more...
CAPITOL HILL: The Shadow President...