Word: whips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanted to poke fun at her, but I couldn't-I'm the one responsible for getting her hooked on the BSB since I sent her to their concert in September to write that now infamous cover story for our first issue. Back then, I wanted a mean, whip-smart slice-and-dice piece on the Boys, but she fell in love with them and proselytizes incessantly. "You know how it's Jesus week?" she told me yesterday, "For me, it's BSB week!!" Moral of the story: Cynicism comes back to bite...
...bill. Both parties have internal divisions on the gun issue. There are plenty of pro-N.R.A Democrats, mostly from Southern states, and gun-controlling Republicans in Northern pockets. Even G.O.P. House leaders are split. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Conference Chair J.C. Watts favor movement toward reform, while majority whip Tom DeLay and majority leader Dick Armey stay hostile to any such legislation. Some Democrats may want the gun-control issue more than they want a legislative solution...
...they still think they can whip Bush by taking San Francisco and San Diego as well as working-class areas like the Inland Empire of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, where you've got more Costco Republicans than country-club Republicans. "It gets back to the one thing I learned at the feet of Nixon," says McCain strategist Ken Kachigian. "It's not the prose, it's the poetry...
With key Ivy League matchups against Penn and Princeton coming up this weekend, Gellert and Prasse-Freeman will come up against the best backcourts in the conference. Their combined play will be one of the determining factors if the Crimson want to whip the Tigers and convert the Quakers. If last weekend was any indication, they'll be ready...
...long gone. Now, little children can turn on their sets and watch a beauty pageant without the beauty or the pageantry--where the prize is an old, sleazy man rather than a tiara and sash, and the title Mrs. Multi-Millionaire is more desirable than Miss America. (A whip-smart friend pointed out that it would have been a mean little joke if the man's actual last name was Multi-Millionaire--a man who didn't have a dime to his name.) Watching the show was like watching a train wreck in slow motion--from the hostess dressed...