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...Chose Him: Because it's easy to imagine Dick Cheney in the late '70s curling his upper lip in disgust at the image of Jimmy Carter addressing the nation in a sweater...
...opus. Efficiency? Cheney's report tosses $4 billion in tax credits for gas-pinching hybrid cars, and a handful of other initiatives meant to keep America getting more out of the power it has. But this is not a man who believes America is ready to don the proverbial sweater, not an America where only 25 percent of households are marrieds-with-children but 43 percent of the vehicles on the road are SUVs, pickups and minivans...
...blooded Americans dislike anything more than a president in a sweater, it's a president - and a vice-president they figure is doing all the work - who are congenitally cozy with the folks they think are deliberately putting them over a barrel...
...John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip. "Very much expensive," he repeats, as they dutifully nod. Across the room a powerfully built...
...after Easter, and the first crocus shoots have ventured tentatively above the ground at the convent on Good Counsel Hill. This is Minnesota, however; the temperature is 23[degrees]F and the wind chill makes it feel far colder. Yet even though she's wearing only a skirt and sweater, Sister Ada, 91, wants to go outside. She wants to feed the pigs...