Word: act
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they circled around each other last week on the stage's red plush carpeting, the body language of both candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Whom do you want to tame Washington for the next four years--the lover or the fighter...
...telephone on Deputy FBI Director Thomas Pickard's desk rang. It was an aide in Secretary of Defense William Cohen's office: "We've had an explosion aboard the Cole. We think it might be a terrorist act." Pickard quickly dialed FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General Janet Reno and Dale Watson, head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division, bringing them online and then activating the FBI's high-tech Strategic Operations and Information Center. Then he called Roger Nisley, chief of the Critical Incident Response Group, and delivered a go message: "Get the Rapid Deployment team rolling toward...
...ministered to Rocky Graziano, Jack Dempsey, Sinatra, many gangsters, many ballplayers. "I saw Mantle out a lot," he says of the late Yankees legend and nighthound. "Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin--Billy got in a fight with an off-duty umpire when he was loaded, and I had to act as referee. I saw Joe DiMaggio...
Even more troubling than the physical changes is the potential psychological effect of premature sexual development on children who should be reading fairy tales, not fending off wolves. The fear, among parents and professionals alike, is that young girls who look like teenagers will be under intense pressure to act like teenagers. Childhood is short enough as it is, with kids bombarded from every direction by sexually explicit movies, rock lyrics, MTV videos and racy fashions. If young girls' bodies push them into adulthood before their hearts and minds are ready, what will be forever lost...
...means you're a nine-year-old having a period, and we are going to proceed accordingly.'" That means clothing, books and music appropriate to a girl's chronological age, not her physical age. It also means having her hang out with her family, where peer pressure to act sophisticated isn't a problem. "One of the best things for a nine-year-old," says Pipher, "is having her spend a lot of time with grandparents, cousins and so on--people who value her for something besides how sexy and popular...