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...loyal base that wrote a gazillion letters on his behalf and a lack of serious competition from other prominent Dems. Some Democratic Governors sought an anybody-but-Dean candidate, but neither former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey nor Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm could be persuaded to run. Likewise, Iowa's Tom Vilsack decided that being Governor and D.N.C. chairman at the same time would complicate his political career, and he never entered the race...
...water at 9:13 a.m. at Abbot's Cliff, south of Dover, England, and emerged on Sangatte Beach, south of Calais, France, 15 hours and 59 minutes later. Every half hour along the way, he was thrown a nutrient drink. Every two hours, he took a swish of Tom's of Maine mouthwash to rinse the salt water out of his mouth. With the current, Brunstad estimates he swam a total of 32 miles, the last 200 yards of which he did accompanied by Alison Streeter and Marcella MacDonald, two of the strongest Channel swimmers in the world...
...TOM WOLFE, author, answering a question about why President Bush liked his racy novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons...
...that there is a good reason to keep a close watch if their child is one of 500 kids in a grade level. Teachers freely admit it's impossible to create individual teaching programs for 30 children in a class. "There aren't enough minutes in the day," says Tom Loveless, who taught in California for nine years and is now director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. "You have to have kids tackling subject matter together as a group. That's a shoe that will pinch for someone." Since the passage...
...petite ballerina into hardcore, bass-thumping Lil’ Ballet Kim, falls in love with a hot black classmate. An annoying Valentine’s Day-esque romance ensues, as their peers come to accept the relationship after a nicely lit love scene that brings back painful memories of Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis...