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Campbell didn't play football, a sport sopopular that as many as 60 of the 150 boys in thehigh school suit up for the varsity. Instead, hewas the announcer for a team that has used arun-oriented veer offense to win two statechampionships in the last six years. He alsoedited the school news-paper, the Warsaw Wildcat,and won an award for his regular column" Little tothe Right...
...hour of TV Nation than in a season of Murphy Brown, but Moore is not venturing into network territory only for the laughs. "I want people to be angry; I want them to get up and do something," he says. This goal sometimes causes TV Nation to veer from satire toward simpleminded didacticism. At the end of a NAFTA segment in which Moore visits American plants that have shifted operations to Mexico, the camera pans over a shantytown. In his narration Moore bemoans the fact that U.S. leaders said NAFTA "would build a better life for all Mexicans." Did anyone...
...public Clinton is little better: his speeches continue to be leviathan, rambling affairs, the result of his tendency to veer from his text as much as he sticks to it. Oval Office meetings that should take a few minutes often go on for hours. A brief update session last month on potential Supreme Court nominees that was scheduled to last 10 minutes dragged on for two hours as Clinton talked through the philosophies of various candidates. "He really loves the intellectual give-and-take," said an official. "But the time pressures and political pressures are such that...
...this, Harvard coxswain junior David Weiden began to veer off course...
...effect be voting with our remote controls. If we don't like what we see - or if the tolls are too high - the electronic superhighway could lead to a dead end. Or it could offer us more - much more - of what we already have. Just as likely, it could veer off in surprising directions and take us places we've never imagined...