Word: styling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ross Perot had it half right; he wanted to fix American politics but chickened out, sacrificing his credibility for a protectionism that went out of style and for love of his own ego. The better half of Perot's posse spawned Jesse Ventura; the failed half degraded into the acid populism that is the stock-in-trade of Pat Buchanan. It plays well in iconoclastic New Hampshire, and with farmers and union men, but if a party aspires to one day leave the fringe in the cause of reform, it is a poison pill. Buchanan is no reformer...
...Crimson played grass-style hockey in the first, over-emphasizing dribbling and two-touch passes in the midfield. In the second, Harvard accentuated the one-touch and opened up the field, taking advantage of its speed and size on the turf...
...Columbia just plays so hard with so much heart that they make it so difficult to play your game," Wheaton said. "They force you to play their style and they did that at times today, so it's always a tough way to start the Ivy League...
...settling but probably won?t ? after which the two sides will present their visions of the company?s penance (could another billion-or-so charitable contribution be on the way?). That?s where it?ll get interesting; expect the feds and the states to call for an AT&T-style bustup of the Gates juggernaut, which despite its complaints hasn?t shown much wear and tear after a year-plus of this trial. And the boys from Redmond? "I wouldn?t expect them to be too hard on themselves," Taylor jokes. "They?ll probably just start looking ahead...
...been stolen. Another shocker: public funds earmarked to pay for tombstones for some of the 7,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre have vanished. Gilman plans hearings on the corruption this week and will call on the White House to create a "well-protected and highly trained ELLIOT NESS-style financial SWAT team" to pursue the inquiry in Bosnia...