Word: sobering
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...SafeRide program, which is now in its fourth year, was created after the Boston chapter of the national Sober Ride program became defunct...
...bullies pounded on - and wound up inhabiting both characters. Out of the struggle to continually remake himself sprang three distinct on-stage personas: Marshall Mathers (his real name), who raps earnestly about the joys of fatherhood and the oppression of celebrity; Eminem, "the emcee who goes onstage sober and spits his metaphors"; and alter ego Slim Shady, "the guy who shows up after a few shots of Bacardi - and wants to fight." Repressing this last figure is a battle whose victory only comes with maturity. "We've all got Slim Shadys up inside of us," he writes. "Most responsible adults...
...That would eliminate the need for foreigners to fund our deficits. The hope is that as we sober up from our debt binge, we'll at least be able to do it ourselves. An era of thrift may be necessary now, but at some point, Americans are going to have to feel like spending again for the economy to grow. It's just hard to see, amid the current economic gloom, when that day will come...
...retire. Coskun Ulusoy, a military-history buff with an economics doctorate from Pittsburgh University who heads the organization, knows that OYAK won't be able to continue increasing the payout at the same rate as it has been. (Last year it was up more than 50%.) And he's sober about the nation's prospects overall. "The truth is that there's danger lurking out there," he says. "We will be affected one way or another - it's a matter of degree...
...such queasiness last Wednesday. Sure, the gubernatorial campaign had been a hoot, what with a no-chance-on-earth third-party candidate marauding about the state and providing some comic relief from the stiffs who headed up the Republican and Democratic tickets. But the election was supposed to signal sober-up time. Instead, the good citizens of Minnesota learned that they--or 37% of the 61% of those who went to the polls--had voted into the Governor's office a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. shaved-head former professional wrestler and Twin City radio shock jock named Jesse...