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Could it be that he led the Crimson in rushing this year? Or that he was a consistent performer under center? Or that he has engineered five come-from-behind wins in just his first two seasons? Whatever it is, Fitzy seems to take it in stride...
When George Bush came into office despite losing the popular vote, he took on the stride of a man who had won an impressive mandate. What will he do now that he has one? There may be too much over-reading of the 2002 election results, but there's no doubt it was a very good night for the 43rd President. He overcame 40 years of mid-term electoral tradition by increasing his party's share of the House seats and made history by re-taking the Senate. He helped rescue his brother's wobbly gubernatorial campaign and, in doing...
...have refused to hope at all. He must have known that, crouched behind the bulwark of our cynicism, we were powerless to improve the world. He must have known that we can only feel the optimism that propelled our parents if we stand up, lower our pasteboard visors and stride forth...
...early '90s rap scene, in which LL hit his commercial stride, was the world's freakiest cocktail party. The liberal humanists of the Native Tongues mixed with the neo--black nationalists of Public Enemy and the ghetto-crime reporters of N.W.A. while LL Cool J flirted with the ladies and Bushwick Bill and M.C. Hammer kept things from getting too weighty. Some of these performers ran out of things to say; most were subsumed by the wave of gangsta culture that swept over rap in 1993. By the time Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle became the first rap album...
WASHINGTON—I came to Washington to be a press intern and learn life’s lessons, to stride or at least scamper meekly through the Corridors of Power, to see and understand how things get done in America, and, though I would certainly wield no power, to at least get close enough to be warmed by its glow. Well…as it turns out I spent much more time operating the Copy Machines of Power than striding through the corridors thereof, but I was definitely warm. I cannot get over how hot this place is. It?...