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...steady stream of consultants and candidates coming to pay homage. Those who seek endorsement are in for a disappointment. "I don't spend any time figuring out who the right candidate is," says Wes. "All I want to do is evangelize populism, so they go away thinking 'Whoa--there's someone other than wealthy donors I have to impress?'" --By Chris Taylor and Karen Tumulty
...Whoa!" Paul said. "My face is on the label?" "Of course," said Stew. "How else do you get their attention?" Paul balked: "My face on a bottle of salad dressing? Not a chance in hell." Stew offered a proposal: "I'd like to set up a tasting. If your dressing is something special and you have a good label on it, I'll get Andy Crowley at Ken's to bottle it and I'll kick off your sales with a big promotion at my store." We told him that Crowley already turned us down. "Gentlemen," Stew said...
...main argument against sudden death overtime is that the coin toss dictates who wins. Historically, the team that wins the coin toss wins 51 percent of the time. Whoa! 51 percent! Geez, that is unfair! But even for those who say 51 is not 50, and thus the system should be changed, there is an even more convincing argument...
...said], ‘Whoa! Is it me? Are you sure you didn’t get the name wrong?’” recalled Xiaowei Zhuang, an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology who received one of this year’s fellowships...
Zounds? Zounds is an old word, a fine word, a word with a pedigree. Iago says it in the opening lines of Othello; it was the 17th century's whoa. But it's not the first word one expects to hear from the "maverick" (USA Today), "insurgent" (Los Angeles Times), "fiery" (New York Observer) self-proclaimed leader of "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," the great repository of hope--and donations--from the antiwar, anti-Bush, pro-gay, Michael Moore left. Even so, the Anglophile locution sounded quite natural coming from Dean's thin Wasp lips...