Word: handing
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...then, as Sydney drew closer, the modernist Australians realized it was a new millennium, and the time to make things right was at hand. They looked to Cathy, and told everyone else to look to Cathy. Here's one way to consider it: Last week Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of the Nike sneaker company. Cathy Freeman hoped to win one for reasons that were positively cosmic...
Rose found sophomore wideout Sean Meeker along the left sideline after Meeker had beat two Leopard defenders, and Meeker reeled in the catch with one hand to the Lafayette...
...where he gained ground just by planting a big one, big time, on the queen of daytime talk. The week before, Gore too had done well on Oprah, but the kid who asked for extra-credit assignments was not made for the confession format. Gore goofed by merely shaking hands ("No kiss?" Oprah wondered aloud). Worse, he pulled the curtain back only on Tipper's depression, rather than serving up any dark night of his own soul. Bush, on the other hand, delivered the emotional arc Oprah's fans tune in for, speaking of God and his battle with alcohol...
...they really are. We've seen that Gore is not as stiff as we thought, and Bush can hold his own when not scripted. But don't think these appearances are ad-libbed. Appearing on Regis (with Susan from Survivor and a guy slicing wood with his hand), Bush went through a wardrobe change so that he could walk onstage dressed exactly like...Regis. Thank God Kathie Lee retired, or he might have donned spandex...
...moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish out reconstruction aid if Kostunica takes office. But Washington in particular is keeping its distance to stave off charges of interfering to get rid of Milosevic. "Ultimately," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...