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...telemarketer. He respected "the people," but not one by one. If the premise of a question was wrong, he would correct it even if the question was posed by a kid. His high school coach once said he played basketball grimly, as if you were supposed to suffer for the game, and he stumped for votes the same way. Even when he was having fun, he didn't look as if he was, with his chin tugging his face down and his eyebrows perpetually raised. It was hard not to get Bradley fatigue in the middle of an event. Senator...
...colon cancer. So if your Aunt Mary died of uterine cancer, don't assume you're in the clear if you've had a hysterectomy or if you're a man. You could be at greater risk of colon cancer as well. The same holds true if you suffer from inflammatory conditions of the intestines, like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis...
McCain often speaks of prudence (for instance, when he talks about social security and taxes), but the hallmark of his "New Patriotic Challenge" is not so much prudence as heroism--the willingness to sacrifice, to suffer pain, even to die, for a worthy cause. Heroism is most closely associated with war, and references to war run throughout McCain's rhetoric--not only with regard to himself and "The Greatest Generation," but to faith, party politics and most everything else...
With so many returning grapplers, Harvard wrestling has much to look forward to in seasons to come. However, the team will also greatly suffer from the graduation of this year's seniors--Killar, Mosley, Kurtz, Tom Kiler, Nate Ackerman and Brett Williams...
When Ulysses Grant was dying of throat cancer in 1885, he wrote an oddly interesting note to his doctor: "I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be, to do, to suffer. I signify all three." Bush seems to be a kind of verb, or at least two-thirds of a verb, the doing and being part - an ordinary man perhaps, but given to common sense and fitted for action. That's the most favorable reading of him. But Gore, which part of speech is he? Pronoun? Half a dozen...