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...instinct to go for the jugular. So quick is Gore to seize an opening that when Bradley groused last week that Iowa rewards "entrenched power," the Vice President was almost instantly on the phone to Eskew: "I want to talk about this today." From the stage of a school gym, Gore, who in his 1988 presidential race skipped Iowa entirely, extolled the virtues of the state's unusual process of picking a nominee. "Fighting for people is what the Iowa caucuses are all about," he thundered...
...Primrose what I could expect from my job, and she said AOL technology meant I could probably work from home. When I am at the office, she told me, the dress code is casual, and I could lose the Oxfords-and-blazer look. She spoke well of the company gym, which is soon to offer salsa dancing, and the cafeteria, which just that afternoon was celebrating kielbasa day. Then I asked Primrose the most important question at any new job: "How closely do you guys look at the expense reports?" She paused. "We are focused on that bottom line...
...Jones, who has a day job as a secretary and receptionist at a construction firm, hasn't worked his tail off in nearly four years of evening classes at the School of Hard Knocks. This training academy for Hulk Hogan wannabes is located in a dumpy storefront gym in San Bernardino, about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. There you can see Jones expertly dropping freshmen classmates with an arm to the throat. Wham! Smack...
...artist, but as he nears 40, his chances of breaking into the World Wrestling Federation are dwindling. "It'd hurt if it doesn't happen, but you can't think that way," Jones says, as another student's foot slams through the gym's low ceiling on an errant flip. "Making it takes discipline, desire and dedication," he adds. Then he goes outside, lights a Camel and coughs up what sounds like part of a lung...
...individualism to which we have grown accustomed will probably become a lifelong habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to the gym, to day care, to the PTA meetings--and end up at the shrink...