Word: winnow
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Although they appear relaxed, the Pudding leadership is running an extremely tight ship. Over the next two days, innumerable Diet Cokes will be chugged and innumerable last-minute cell phone calls will be made as they winnow down all the singing, dancing, punning hopefuls into a dozen cast members...
...ARENA: Joe Klein on why it's time for the Democrats to winnow the field and get serious about choosing a candidate. But don't hold your breath...
Team Schwarzenegger is hoping that other Republicans in the race--particularly State Senator Tom McClintock, around whom the most ardent conservatives have rallied--will follow Simon to the sidelines. But the actor's strategists know he must do more than winnow the field to draw voters. Men 35 and younger are known to turn out in force when it comes to films about gun-toting, back-from-the-future robots, but history shows that on Election Day they are more inclined to sit home with a video. Getting them off the couch to vote on Oct. 7 could...
Expect more of the same in coming months. The military has begun what promises to be a long, gory campaign. It aims to winnow out rebels by forcibly emptying villages and herding people into internment camps. Armed men who remain in the villages will be told to shed their weapons and come out. Those who remain, says General Sudi Silalahi, an adviser to the National Security Minister, will be subject to "sweepings." In practice, that means they will probably be shot. Meanwhile, the outmuscled rebels can be expected to draw out the fighting to provoke more atrocities, hoping to embarrass...
...produced the documentary The War Room about the 1992 Clinton campaign. Applicants will submit a petition signed by 50 people and a 30-minute video. They'll be narrowed down to a field of semifinalists of various ideologies by a panel of political experts. Then the audience will winnow the field in a process involving debates and politicking (but, please God, not Ryan Seacrest). The winner will be chosen during an on-air "convention" around July 4, then decide whether to run. (The show is still ironing out details such as how the candidate will raise funds...