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...jobs for 100,000 Texans. "I'm a survivor of the oil patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look him in the eyes, and you have to trust him," says Tyler motel clerk Boris Johnson. "There's nothing phony. He speaks common sense...
...Mountains of the Moon, John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) is just a few days out on his first trek into the wilderness when he gets a spear through his cheek, and a messy, bloody business it is. Before the movie ends, his partner, the celebrated Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin), suffers a vividly portrayed case of cellulitis as well as a degrading imprisonment by a tribe not thrilled at being discovered by civilization. The movie strongly hints at a homosexual bond between the two men -- at least until they fall into an unseemly squabble over who actually discovered the source...
Look for the Huskies to try to pester the Crimson out of its offense with some overly physical play. Look for Harvard to turn the other cheek. Or look for the Crimson to retaliate, and watch Cleary explode. When Mike Vukonich got in a fight against Brown near the Harvard bench, Cleary yanked the 6-ft., 210-lb. forward out of the fray himself...
Lehtinen has been under fire before. As a commander in Viet Nam in 1971, he was disfigured by shrapnel on the left side of his face and blinded in one eye. After 18 months and four operations to reconstruct his cheek and jaw, he went to Stanford Law, where he graduated first in his class. A Democrat until he changed parties in 1985, he served in the Florida legislature for nearly eight years. His conservative views impressed former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who appointed him to his present post...
When Jimmy Carter signed a SALT II treaty in June 1979, he gave Brezhnev a big kiss on the cheek. The treaty was never ratified, largely because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan six months later. In 1980 Republicans used photographs of the signing ceremony with the message to voters YOU TOO CAN KISS OFF JIMMY CARTER...