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...know most presidential candidates as they do common things--fly commercial, eat the complimentary breakfast buffet, ride in the elevator--in pursuit of an uncommon goal. But Gore is the Vice President and thus was blocked by armed guards and accessible by invitation only. When you did get to him, he could be a conundrum. Once, as I interviewed him in a hotel about his eldest daughter Karenna, Gore started by offering me a soda. I'm glad I took it--it was the only refreshing thing in that dry, unrevealing, tense half-hour, which was odd since the questions...
Rose grew up in Mililani, Hawaii. He picked up football in the ninth grade, playing backup quarterback and defensive back. Although Rose won the starting job as junior, his high school experience was extremely uncommon for a Division I college starter...
...will show people that you put the welfare of the nation before your own ambition. It will show that you have an uncommon devotion to the common good. It will show that you can rise above the messiness and unruliness and see what's best for the country, not the Gore family. It will show people that you are that rare thing, a statesman...
...said these kinds of rulings against religious expression are not uncommon in Turkey. She was expelled from medical school for the same reason...
...only one to blame--the state of Texas, after all, prosecuted the case and has continued to fight the appeal. The two reports, released by the Texas Defender Service and the Texas Civil Rights Project, show that such nightmare scenarios as a sleeping lawyer are anything but uncommon in the Texas legal system. The reports documented a system in which incompetent lawyers are regularly appointed to defend people on trial for their lives: one quarter of all those now on the Texas death row were represented by attorneys that have been disciplined, disbarred or suspended by the State Bar. Texas...