Word: shoo
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This time of year always makes me wistful, and not just because I’ll soon be leaving fair Harvard. In less than a month, my classmates will move on to more lucrative lives. With their Harvard diplomas, they are shoo-ins for the upper middle class, and many will climb even higher. So what’s the problem? With all this upward mobility—as a matter of statistical certainty—many of today’s residents of the Kremlin on the Charles will wake up not too long from now as (gasp) Republicans...
...brains, and noiseless shock gave way to intense chatter. Some questioned the result, but most just wanted to know, "Who the hell are Belle and Sebastian?" One exec thought they might be a firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network...
...could win seven. Among other favorites: skeleton riders Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards and Jeff Pain have dominated World Cup circuits this season; cross-country skiers Beckie Scott and Sara Renner have won seven World Cup medals; and the men's and women's curling and hockey teams are all but shoo-ins for medals, each a favorite for gold. The only question is whether the public and press can shift their attention away from Gretzky and over to the Games...
...Most news analysts are saying that Alito is a shoo-in as a Justice. But I can't be the only one who is deeply troubled by his inexplicable memory lapse while under oath. Honest sworn testimony is the very foundation of our judicial system. Experiences involving strong emotion are the ones we remember best. No way that he forgot his position on dear old alma mater...
...stays in the Senate, he will return to a leadership post. Lott tells TIME he "certainly will" consider running for a top G.O.P. job if he seeks a fourth term next year. With Tennessee's Bill Frist set to retire in 2006, Kentucky's Mitch McConnell seems a shoo-in for majority leader, but Lott could win the No. 2 post--that of majority whip. Why? Because at a time when George W. Bush is faltering, it's hip to be a White House outsider. The President ensured Lott's ouster in 2002, and relations between the two have never...