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...Chirac, meanwhile, was rubbing his hands in glee over his suddenly improved prospects. Ever since he unwisely called - and lost - a snap parliamentary election in 1997, he has been a deeply wounded leader, forced to share power with Jospin and shorn of his image as a master strategist. As a result, many analysts were ready to write off Chirac's re-election chances. But the conservatives' unexpectedly strong showing last week points to a real horse race in the 2002 contests...
...Johnny and Luther. Leading a half-dozen rebels, the stories go, they beat back entire companies of Burmese soldiers. Their followers swore they had magic powers and were impervious to bullets. For a desperate people, the boys became messiahs. At the police station, they seemed anything but saviors. Shorn of their weapons and fatigues, they appeared to be scrawny, stunted children smoking Thai cigarettes and munching on shortbread cookies. So what were they really...
Such a court deserves to be challenged. Yes, that will create a crisis. But crisis is preferable to supine acquiescence. Should the Florida court be put in its place--overridden and thus shorn of its emperor's new clothes--we will have at last begun to rectify the constitutional imbalance created by the imperial judiciary. This is not a constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional opportunity...
...here were the actors. Live. Richard, the winner. Shaven, shorn and slimmed down, wan in the studio lights - and clothed - Richard was something of a disappointment. Not sure anybody knows who I really am. Think I played fair. I brought Rudy a gift. Here was a guy who got the biggest applause of the night - for losing 130 pounds and keeping it off. It was like an AA meeting in there...
...globular heads familiar from innumerable sci-fi images. Conversely, our immediate forebears were robustly boned and, we think, more heavily muscled than we are today. What could be more natural than to conclude that supported by increasingly complex labor-saving technologies, our bodies will in future be frailer and shorn of such frivolities as the little...