Word: steeled
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...after seeing the rapper-actor in the play Topdog/Underdog. For Willis, playing the burnt-out officer "is obviously not a vanity role," says director Richard Donner. But, for the record, "Bruce's gut is mostly padding." Phew. Then he hasn't hurt his shot at an Abs of Steel video...
...came in watching what happened in the airline industry, where workers lost their pensions, and in the steel industry, where retirees lost their health care. But the final decision was made on the weekend before the convention, just sitting in a room with the other union presidents. You always have a hope that something's going to get resolved at the last minute. It's the nature of labor negotiations. But we then realized this was more of a situation where things were not going to shift toward a settlement but where you had to decide if you were going...
...during the brutal Pyrenees ascents. His rivals had a final long-shot chance to catch him, Saturday?s 34.5-mile time trial in Saint-Etieene, the penultimate stage of the Tour. Armstrong won the stage, his first on this year?s Tour. From the podium, tears filled his steel-blue eyes-he knew it was over...
...STRANGEST THING SOLD ON AMAZON? You know bird spikes, those things you put on ledges and buildings to keep pigeons from landing? A friend of mine e-mailed me that he looked everywhere for them and found that Amazon had all different sizes. You can buy stainless-steel bird spikes, polycarbonate bird spikes. We have the whole bird-spike array...
...talked of Roberts' emerging from Harvard with honors and summers working in a steel mill, introduced his family, talked of his heart, which is Bush code for "he's my kind of guy, so I don't need to get into specifics." To focus more on where the man comes from than on anything he has argued in 24 years as a government and corporate lawyer is not just a political smoke screen. It is a reminder, first, that it is a lawyer's art to offer arguments detached from beliefs; and second, that whatever issues the court faces...