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...while a more image-conscious pol might have pasted on a wider smile, or shaken Gore's hand with more vigor, Bradley's not that kind of guy, and he isn't about to start playing the game now. His speech meandered through a checklist of old-school Democratic mantras (funding social programs, ending discrimination) before it arrived on Gore's doorstep with a deafening thump. "I want to make it clear," he intoned, in case there was any confusion as to why he was standing there, "that I endorse Al Gore for president of the United States...
...gear in an attempt to climb the mountain and I looked over the side of the truck and out over the cliff, I felt like I was going to throw up. At this point, Sugar, one of the pilots, asked me if I was scared. Managing my most sincere smile, I assured him that I wasn't. Even though I was on the verge of screaming WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! this wasn't a total lie. I was so consumed with my vision of the truck tumbling down the side of the cliff that I didn't have...
...Joel, at least, seems just the kind of guy this wouldn't bother a bit. He's already back in Arkansas, checking out the Paula Joneses, smiling that oily smile and basking in his four or five minutes of fame. The breathless CBS web site even let him depart with some favorable spin, calling the vote "shocking" and discerning a political shift in tribal voting from weeding out the weak to "offing likely winners...
...down the race course, drawing little water. Our centerboard caught in the muddy banks before we were even off the mooring and our little craft was buffeted by the gusting winds. My confidence was as shaken--the only thing keeping me from running away was the trusting smile of my MP. He didn't seem to notice that I was the youngest skipper, the only woman and American, but it was clear to me from the minute I entered the room, an outsider...
Daley was rewarded for his efforts with...nothing. Many thought him a shoo-in for the first Clinton Cabinet. But the President wanted a team that looked like America, and despite a smile as wide as the Illinois prairie and feet firmly in the heartland, Daley didn't fit the bill. But Daley looked enough like America to be asked to salvage NAFTA in 1993, when the Administration was headed for an embarrassing defeat. The job was a killer. It lacked Cabinet status, had no staff and had less than a third of the Democrats in support. He jumped right...