Word: slight
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...sends a sick thrill through the arena. Why get mad? Because your rival got stupidly lucky. Because your rival took more effective drugs than you did. Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...
Wisps of smoke emanate from an ever-burning fire. The Tent Embassy's main inspiration, Isabell Coe, a slight, gray-haired 50-something woman more commonly known as Auntie Isabell, calls it "the fire for peace and justice." Encircling the fire are huge tree trunks. This circle is the nerve center of the Tent Embassy. People come and go asking Mrs. Coe's advice about various subjects...
...Bush, it was a bad week to be having a bad week. With the national polls giving the Vice President a 10-point postconvention bounce and even a slight lead over the Texas Governor, Bush needed to seize the agenda, not cede it to Gore. And though Gore could lose his groove as quickly as he found it, statewide polls indicate his advantage has grown in California and New Jersey. He is running ahead of Bush in Michigan--a crucial battleground state--and, for the first time, in Minnesota, which is normally a state Democrats can count...
There remains the possibility, however slight, that despite the column inches dedicated to Survivor winner RICHARD HATCH's nudist lipidian foibles, we don't know everything about him. For his part, Hatch is endeavoring to wipe out these pockets of ignorance. "I didn't have liposuction," says Rich about his new svelte-ish physique. "But if you saw that flopping around stuff on the last episode--I had that removed. It's called resection, and it's skin that could not retract from having lost more than 140 lbs. It had been stretched past the point of healthily ever being...
...Bush, it was a bad week to be having a bad week. With the national polls giving the Vice President a 10-point postconvention bounce and even a slight lead over the Texas Governor, Bush needed to seize the agenda, not cede it to Gore. And though Gore could lose his groove as quickly as he found it, statewide polls indicate his advantage has grown in California and New Jersey. He is running ahead of Bush in Michigan--a crucial battleground state--and, for the first time, in Minnesota, which is normally a state Democrats can count...