Word: vanquish
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Peterson so far polls 32% against Bush. But he keeps the Governor at 48% and leaves a 20% chunk undecided. It's the kind of math the centrists like. Peterson would first have to vanquish Reno in the primary, which means, he acknowledges, taking on the onerous task of convincing Democrats that he can "appeal ultimately to a wider section of voters than Democrats." Still, unless they can transform Peterson into a more galvanizing pol or make Reno more appealing to Floridians above Lake Okeechobee, the Democrats look about as likely to win as the alligators that Reno's late...
...plot is strictly B movie: a young samurai is teleported by the evil wizard Aku to the distant future. So is the dialogue ("With the power of this sword, I will vanquish Aku!"). But even nonaction fans will be wowed by the art. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory) raids the history of illustration, art and cinema with the gusto of a kid playing in an attic. He gleefully cobbles past, present and future into a supercool fantasy of classical Japanese art, Hanna-Barbera, expressionism, anime, '60s film and '50s modernism, just for starters. (His dystopian future city looks like...
...else, the series Xena: Warrior Princess seemed to come to a definitive conclusion. After six seasons, the show's final episode saw Xena, played by LUCY LAWLESS, being riddled with arrows and decapitated. Her corpse was later hanged from a tree and cremated. On the plus side, she did vanquish some evil spirits. But that wasn't enough to pacify fans of the show. An angry rabble has taken to the Internet, complaining on fan sites of the violent nature of Xena's death and the fact that it seems to preclude the possibility of future Xena Christmas reunion specials...
After winning a tight match against Holy Cross in the first contest, the Crimson exploded for 10 runs and 13 hits in the second. Harvard needed only four and a half innings to vanquish the Crusaders...
...Muslims, terrorist networks will be unable to persuade the masses. But America needs to take the first step. This might mean loosening sanctions on Iraq and/or taking a more neutral stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And it definitely means educating the American people about Islam. Before America can vanquish Osama bin Laden, it must vanquish its own ignorance...