Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Cheer up old boy, it's not as bad as it looks. Sure, you're down in the polls, so am I. But don't buy into doom-and-gloom politics. It's all about putting a positive spin on things...
Conducting himself like the plucky boy next door has worked well for Lazio, who has risen quickly from being a local prosecuting attorney to a Suffolk County legislator to becoming a Congressman at age 34. He also knows from a lot of recent history that going negative can be dangerous. The easiest way for a candidate with serious character flaws to neutralize them is to have an opponent point them out. Bill Bradley began his descent when he called Al Gore a liar. And Hillary began her rise in the polls when dark forces--Ken Starr, the Congress, the vast...
...Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents and other adults as well. The trouble with such spontaneous, rapturous enthusiasm, at least to those with their gimlet eyes on the bottom line, is its unpredictability and fickleness, as with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...first week in stores and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard charts, right behind MTV darlings Eminem and Britney Spears. Sure, the very next week White Pony slid down to No. 15, but the point had been made: in an age of teen pop and frat-boy rap-rock, there's still room at the top of the charts for uncompromisingly smart music...
...Lazio has ripped both Clintons over its price 4. According to the Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts can bar them from being troop leaders 8. The Gift of the Magi gift 11. Singer DiFranco 12. Orsk's river 13. "Later!" 14. The run-up to its election was tainted by violence 16. Bear up? 17. He's home at last 18. Applies with a Q-tip 20. U.S. Middle East mediator 23. Online brokerage firm that just went decimal 26. Nautilus sites 29. Stephen King beast 31. Day-__ 32. Prosecutors must tell his lawyer which nations they believe he tried...