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...character - not least because she continued to succeed, winning two more world championships and a silver medal at Atlanta. Meantime, she enjoyed a really messy personal life - lawsuits by a former coach/lover, stuff like that. During the messy years she was in shape, then out, too heavy or too thin, on form or off. So Cathy was becoming more of a symbol and more human at the same time. She became a vulnerable crusader...
...loyal, baseball-loving denizens of the Hub have foolishly suspended our disbelief, ignored our better senses, and laid out our ever-wishful souls, all for the sake of our bumbling Olde Towne Team. This year, more than any other, we showed up in droves to support our team, making thin our wallets as we set a Red Sox franchise record for season attendance. More fans passed through the turnstiles of Fenway Park in 2000 than in any previous season; the last 57 home games of the year were all sellouts...
Christina Aguilera seems too small to contain her voice. The 19-year-old singer's bare waist--so thin you'd think it could fit between two parentheses--looks too tiny to support the strong, soulful melismata that flow from her lips. In fact, Aguilera's talent seems to require more space than the teen-pop world can provide. While Mandy Moore and the like go comfortably about the business of churning out plastic pop--and Britney Spears manufactures successful distractions like her strip tease at the recent MTV Video Music Awards--Aguilera's vocals strain and flutter against...
...over the next year. He would go along, said Blinder, but consumer demand may not be letting up as much as Cohen thinks, and business has an "insatiable demand" for--and appetite to invest in--new information technology. So those predicting 3% to 3.5% growth are "walking on thin ice," says Blinder, because the actual figure could turn out to be higher...
...estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system where Americans can invest part of their premiums. Gore's team believes Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers, but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back and forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the greatest point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...