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...movie. It was a savvy move: Even to someone who grew up listening to her PMRC campaign being reviled by Ice-T and Mojo Nixon, Tipper turns out to be a moralist who's tough to hate, every bit as easygoing and approachable as her husband is stereotypically stiff. ("Al and Tipper: She's human enough for both of them...
Thompson will face stiff challenges in the 50-m freestyle, the 100-m butterfly and 100-m freestyle from the likes of Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn, teammate Dara Torres and Australia's Susie O'Neill. But it's a new, more personal century for Thompson. "For a long time she was a better team swimmer than an individual one," says Quick. "That time is gone. Now she's the best she ever has been." And, more important perhaps, have fun being...
...with his finger on the nuclear button pronounces it "nuke-yoo-ler"? Today, Bush's film and his campaign say, America is in the middle of one of the biggest prolonged parties in its history. So who do you want to take to the dance - me or the stiff? The crafted image he presented was of a good-time boy who'd gotten responsible, but, you know, not too much. In Philadelphia tonight, George W. Bush urged America to party on - and may have just convinced the nation to elect him Designated Driver...
...convention in Philadelphia, the Bush team has chosen as its theme the careful "Renewing America's Purpose. Together." The real leitmotif--pushed by the campaign for many weeks--is much edgier: "George Bush Is a Different Kind of Republican." Mimicking almost exactly the language Bill Clinton used to stiff-arm his party's liberals eight years ago, it is an implicit sniff at the old kind of Republicans who will be gathered that week in Philadelphia...
...tell you, it's hard to keep a stiff upper lip these days. First my high-tech dot-com portfolio plummets. Then it turns out that my beloved cell phone may be zapping my delicate cranium with radioactive waves. And now, to top it all off, the Prozac that keeps me from murdering my coworkers is under attack, this time by recently unemployed talk therapists. It's as if everything that seemed so promising way back in the '90s has suddenly been tainted by doubt...