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...Senator's sell-by date seems to have passed in New Hampshire. A well-known neighbor, he has been carefully vetted by that state's hyper-sophisticated electorate and found wanting. Certainly, in a year when passion rules, Kerry hasn't shown a fraction of Dean's incredible vigor...
Both offenses played with a bit more vigor in the third period, taking almost as many shots on goal (24) as they had in the previous 40 minutes...
Today, the bonhomie of an extended vigil has transmuted into the vigor of a cocktail party. Viewers in conversation clusters speculate about the election outcome and bring each other up to date on the latest in Cambridge politics...
...nuclear-weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization in September. Now comes a space effort designed to generate national pride and display the country's vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technology and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of NASA. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs to stake...
Actually, it's both. The show of public support for Arafat has clearly fueled his vigor. When a group of top security officials began squabbling at a recent meeting at the Muqata'a, Arafat exploded. According to one participant, he barked, "Get out! I don't need you. The masses are outside, and I need only the masses." At another meeting attended by Qurei and other party leaders last week, an insider relates, Arafat angrily rebuked critics of his proposal to create a 23-person national-security council that would control all Palestinian security forces and answer...