Word: slipping
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Introducing his newly-minted running mate, Barack Obama had a slip of the tongue. "Let me introduce you to the next President... the next Vice President of the United States of America," Obama told a crowd of 35,000 yesterday on the steps to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the same site where Obama announced his bid for the White House. The crowd laughed but, in many ways, Obama was telling the truth. The choice of Biden was meant to complete the Presidential candidate...
Biden's Achilles heel has always been his own tongue. Indeed, when Obama flubbed his introduction of Biden in Springfield, the McCain campaign pounced calling it not only a "Freudian slip" ("Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt) but the Republicans also alluded to Biden criticisms of Obama's campaign, when both were still rivals for the nomination. Said Porritt: "The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn...
...Gadd's return to the U.K. has received front-page treatment by the British press, which has run headlines like, "The Unspeakable Depravity of 'Uncle Gary.'" Child advocates hope that hype will help reform a legal system which too often lets pedophiles slip through its cracks. "He's shone a spotlight on U.K. sex offenders who go overseas and off the radar, and target children where they are highly vulnerable," says Zoe Hilton, policy advisor at London-based National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She's calling for governments to work more closely with one another...
Conversation with Hutz flits from Charlie Chaplin (a hero) to comparing the melancholy of Eastern Europeans with the concept of duende in the Spanish arts. Then he'll slip back into casual mode, calling Madonna, with whom he performed at Live 8 in front of two billion people, "a great chick to hang with...
...says. "There wasn't anything wrong, I fell. It was a mistake." While she normally scores above 16, she had to be content with a 15.05. Then came Liukin, who has one of the most difficult routines in the world and might have been shaken to see Memmel slip off the bars. After a typically flawless program, Liukin uncharacteristically landed awkwardly and fell onto her back, dropping her score; in qualifying for the Olympics, she had earned more than 17 points for the same program...