Word: trails
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...fall day in 2000, George W. Bush was hard at work on the presidential campaign trail. He spoke to a crowd gathered in La Crosse, Wisc. on the topic of family values: “Families is where our nation finds hope,” Bush maintained, “where wings take dream.” The president’s soaring rhetoric is especially pertinent today, almost three years later, as American families face some of the highest unemployment rates and wage differentials in decades. Whatever he meant to say, it’s hard to imagine Bush...
...kilometers through the hinterlands, and that's what most of the history books say. But two British adventurers who just retraced the route report that the journey wasn't quite so epic. Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, two editors living in Beijing, spent 384 days following Mao's trail, consulting hundreds of villagers along the way for guidance in fording rivers and traversing the appropriate mountain passes. Their verdict: The army traveled about 6,000 kilometers, half the fabled distance. "People seem affronted [by the findings] and try to convince us we're wrong," says Jocelyn. But even...
Other groups to take T.T.’s stage before making it big include Jane’s Addiction and the Smashing Pumpkins. Some more recent performers include …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the Black Keys, the Detroit Cobras, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Chicks on Speed...
...fast as they descended, the contestants left, leaving a trail of plates and crumbs in their wake. “Seeing the sweat drip off of Lehe’s forehead inspired me to be a better person,” Currier HoCo Chair Lacey R. Whitmire ’05 remarked...
...uniformed waiters, the Boss heads for the Goa airport, where his private Boeing 727 is prepped for take-off. Is the destination Monaco, Gstaad or any number of other international playgrounds befitting the 47-year-old glamour boy of Indian business? Hardly. Vijay Mallya is hitting the campaign trail...