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Defending national champion Yale always provides stiff competition...
...museum much of her memorabilia to display, and says she has been impressed by how thorough and serious the curators have been. "But I know they have lewd interests," she says. "It's just hidden. You can tell when you talk to them. They like to keep a stiff upper lip because otherwise they'll stutter...
...breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...
...press liaison officer with a face so caked in makeup that it remained stiff even when she smiled offered to perform a skin care consultation on me using a “patented” magnifying camera. She claimed this device would accurately detect the “real” age of my skin. I politely declined. After all, every Aussie girl already knows that years of cavorting under the hole in the ozone layer have most likely given her skin an unattractive, leathery quality. Aside from this, there was something about the idea of identifying...
...immediately clear why we like Tony Soprano despite all his bad qualities, but it definitely has to do with his common touch. Even though he is at the top of the world of organized-crime he hasn’t betrayed his roots. He is still a working stiff who struggles to balance the demands of home with the demands of work, all the while trying to carve out some time for his own personal enjoyment. Americans can identify with that. Even though Tony’s a lot more powerful than most of us will ever be, we?...