Word: throwings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Faced with the reality of my limitations, I decided I had to throw out my old definition of “doing well” and find another one. I busied myself with “soul-searching” activities that now seem silly—like enrolling in a philosophy class and taking evening runs along the Charles. And I waited, as if meaning would drop from the sky and hit me. While I did discover the beauty of the Charles at sunset and learned a lot about Descartes’ existential crises, those pursuits did not yield...
...fellow Democrats want a Presidential nominee long on experience, vision and brains, they will persuade former Vice President Gore to throw his hat into the ring. President George W. Bush's disastrous terms have shown us all how hazardous it is to pick a President with very little relevant experience. Good intentions, handsome hairstyles and slick sound bites don't help much when the chips are down...
...also important that my friends be willing to broadcast my thoughts to their other friends. So I sent a comment for the candidates to put on their sites: "Dude, you rock! Throw some phat parties in that White House next year, yo!! You could probably get Eminem to play! I'd totally come to that!" In two hours, the comment was up on my pal Brownback's site and also on the pages of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, Duncan Hunter and Chris Dodd. I was taken with Dodd since his page includes his iPod playlists...
...like a game of connect the dots, with all the would-be nominees running from interest group to interest group, knowing and delivering precisely what each constituency is expecting to hear. Unless, that is, the would-be nominee happens to be named Barack Obama. Whereas other candidates like to throw red meat before their audiences, Obama is developing a penchant for hurling cold water at them...
...Gore used to throw open the vice presidential gates every Halloween for a costume party. Under the current management, however, the guests might as well come as ghosts...