Word: tours
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...with the tale of John Edwards and the $400 haircut. On July 16, Edwards embarked on a three-day, 12-city tour to highlight the persistence of poverty in the U.S. Asked why he thought poverty was a winning issue, Edwards gave an unusual response for a presidential candidate: "I don't know that it is. This is not a political strategy. It's a huge moral issue facing America...
Perhaps so. But many of the three dozen journalists accompanying Edwards couldn't seem to get those snipping shears off their minds. Nearly every news story about the poverty tour made reference to Edwards' lavish coif by way of calling into question the candidate's ability to relate to low-income Americans...
...wide (7.3 m) cage makes some people queasy, the girls are now trying to cash in on the MMA wave. "We're not hitting tennis balls. We're hitting people," says Gina Carano, a fighter in the upstart, male-dominated EliteXC circuit who draws more traffic to the tour's website than any male fighter does. "Isn't that more exciting...
Lowe seemed to be tolerating rather than enjoying all the attention, and he looked a bit startled when Edwards, kicking off the third and final day of his eight-state poverty tour, seized on his story and got angry on his behalf. "We have to do something about this! This is not okay!" the candidate said. "How can we allow this to happen, that James had to live 50 years without treatment? Are you listening? This is America's problem. And let me tell you, as long as I am alive and breathing I'm going to do something about...
...cheats us of the good feelings we have come to expect from movies about show biz paragons. You leave the theater feeling disappointed by its failure to release the buoyant feelings that last-minute comebacks usually engender. Where's the hit movie, the Broadway triumph, the hysterically greeted concert tour that justifies all the hard times we have endured with our hero or heroine? It's only later, as you think the movie over - and it does stay with you - that you realize it has kept faith with the essential Petey Greene, a man who knew his limits...