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...think we paid special attention to fitness and just being very disciplined this time around,” Chu said. “We were, I think, the strongest team in the tournament, and I think we were better prepared than in previous years...
...strongest unifying force among most black voters is a shared rage against Bush. That resentment was ignited during the Florida recount fiasco, which many blacks perceived as rigged against them in all too familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized...
Compared with Edwards, Kerry looks like a tourist in South Carolina and still has minimal staff on the ground. His military pedigree may appeal to black voters, but his more remote style may be a liability. Not surprisingly, Al Sharpton has had one of the strongest presences in South Carolina, handing out Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis...
...down Dallas Cowboys kick returner Herschel Walker, saving a touchdown. Before a returner starts prancing towards the end zone, he usually sprints past the poor little kicker, making him crumble to the ground like a cheap cookie. But Vinatieri wasn?t scared to pound one of the NFL?s strongest players, and his coach, Bill Parcells, singled him out in the locker room after the game. ?That day he told everybody that I was a football player, more than just a kicker,? Vinatieri says. ?That meant the world...
...horns and a tail, came across as nicely self-deprecatory. In a notably conciliatory speech to the Europeans in his audience, Cheney said that the old Continent was an example to all of the benefits that peace, economic success and political stability can bring. America, he said, "wants the strongest possible Europe" and has no desire to force the Continent "to choose between your European and transatlantic vocations." Cheney then thanked European governments for their many contributions to the war on terrorism. The senior U.S. official even promised that the U.N. would have a "pretty significant role" in Iraq...