Word: derailments
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...wise man also keeps his allies from embarrassing him. Florida Republicans are still revving up for that special session, set for Wednesday by the House, but Sunday night the state's Senate leader cried whoa. Is this merely a show of sagacious dissent, to derail charges of railroading, or is there real dissension in the ranks? Cheney has perfected the shrug on this issue, but he might consider a loud plea for the local folks to wait a week - the last thing Bush needs right now is another reason to look illegitimate. (Next-to-last: the emerging GOP fight...
...have come to expect and even admire from our family dog during Thanksgiving. While normally Thanksgiving is the most languid of all the holidays, consisting of heroic acts of gluttony followed by digestion-induced catatonia, I could always trust Sadie to pull some sort of caper that would derail the otherwise smooth-running family affair...
Putin remains publicly neutral, but privately he is more worried about a Bush presidency than about AL GORE's occupying the Oval Office. "Moscow is very frustrated about Bush's position on national missile defenses," says a Russian official. Putin is trying to derail U.S. anti-ballistic missiles. Bush wants to rush to build a large system, while Putin believes Gore would be more cautious and perhaps postpone the defenses if the technology wasn't ripe...
...think you saw Svetlana mad during the team competition, nothing could have prepared anyone for the fury that came when she discovered that the vault had been mismanaged. Spouting and screaming, twitching and reddening, she took everyone to task for a conspiracy that she believed was intended solely to derail her gold medal hopes. When reporters tried to get her to sum up her feelings, she had two words for them: "Piss...
With Ivy League foe Cornell slated for October 7, this Sunday seems to be the ideal time for the Crimson to find its scoring touch. While a loss will not derail Harvard from reaching its goal of winning an Ivy League championship and making it to the NCAA tournament, a win can certainly propel them in the right direction...