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...Thorpe had to keep them from coming until March 10. For weeks, Oregon's leading gay activist discouraged gay people--"around the clock"--from going to the county to demand marriage licenses. Thorpe told couples that B.R.O. was planning to submit a sheaf of license applications at once--"Would you be willing to just wait a couple of weeks?" she would ask. If they were persistent, she told them about the filing deadline, "and people got that...
...Clint Eastwood outmuscle Jackson for Best Director? Sure--in a body-building competition. On Oscar night, we'll see. Eastwood's Mystic River received a sheaf of rapturous reviews and did O.K. business. At 73, the old cowpoke might ride sentiment to take an Oscar. But he got Picture and Director statuettes for Unforgiven in 1993 and the Irving G. Thalberg Award two years later. A senior citizen can use only so many retirement gifts...
...Army officer trying to act like a politician. Now he's a politician. He not only has a stump speech but he's got the body language down too. During a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire last week, Clark was confronted by a man waving a thick sheaf of insurance forms--the paperwork required in treating his wife's breast cancer. His question was, "Isn't this ridiculous?" but Clark didn't respond immediately. He first turned to the wife and asked how she was feeling now. Fine, she said. Then he asked the husband a series of thoughtful...
...evident during this speech. In fact, he appeared relatively healthy. He was sitting throughout the address and wearing a neatly pressed green military uniform and repeatedly turned the pages of his speech with his right hand. At one point near the end of his speech he took the thick sheaf of papers that contained the address and clapped them down on the podium, using both hands. There were, however, brief moments when he appeared at least slightly out of breath...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety--and decided to launch it anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what in the rocket business are called safety waivers--problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate--every launch is going to have them--but others...