Word: texans
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...man” this Valentine’s Day, believes the latter item confirms a popular stereotype. “It’s true what they say about chocolate dicks!” she says. Like frosting? Try the cream-filled “Tall Texan.” Everything’s bigger in Texas...
Karl Rove loves a three-cushion shot. As the President's chief political brain, the Texan, 51, delights in crafting a message or staging a presidential visit that doesn't just score a political point but also plays to several constituencies at once. So when it was reported in the New York Times that Rove might have steered an Enron contract to Ralph Reed, a G.O.P. kingmaker whose support Rove needed, the political elite in Washington, which includes some longtime enemies, thought that just might be his kind of pool...
...track, we visit the bobsledders. The U.S. women are famously controversial, owing to top-gun driver Jean Racine kicking her former best friend and brakeman Jen Davidson out of the sled. Racine and new brakeman Gea Johnson still have a good chance to medal. On the men's side, Texan Todd Hays, 32, is a household name from Calgary to Cortina after emerging during the current World Cup series as a daring driver with a superfast sled...
...first-year Texan then added wins in the 50 free (24.23) and 100 free (52.93). Ward’s win in the 100 was her first-ever victory over co-captain Janna McDougall...
...leader in war and diplomacy and head of the E.U.'s most diffident member state, whose dinner table other European leaders still clamor to grace. Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence that self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans to take...