Word: handing
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...hopes and the obsessiveness of those that have perhaps not yet dreamed enough. Mere teenagers most of them, their racing bodies are rock hard, their eyes fixed on record times, Olympic titles and fantasies of domination. Before her big race on Sept. 18, in her darkened room, stopwatch in hand, American breaststroker Megan Quann, 16, visualized victory over world-record holder Penny Heyns of South Africa. "When I swim at practice it's her that I see in my mind, and it's her that pushes me every day," said Quann. In her head she played out every stroke...
Reagan, on the other hand, managed to be a far more effective leader even after a lifetime making "B-class movies" and a late start in politics, Gergen continued...
...other hand, the drab village of the Wishy-Washy seems to be located at the 50-yard line of American public opinion in this presidential election. It is the village residents who will--surprise--decide the outcome. In the village, we think there are strong reasons to vote for Gore--and strong reasons not to. Same with Bush...
...insinuation, in a book on Nancy Reagan, that Love and Smith were a couple ("a fantastic aside that I had been 'living openly for years with another woman in New York'") without flatly denying it ("I didn't quite get this stupid and arcane implication, but on the other hand, I did"). She writes of 15 years of living in "close companionship," but she calls Love nothing more amorous than her "pal." Is she hiding something? Leading...
...sufficiently acceptable to the military and other Serb elites to allow them to finally jettison a leader who presided over a decade of disaster. Kostunica, after all, is a nationalist - albeit comparitively moderate - and firmly opposed to NATO. He's even vowed that, if elected, he won't hand Milosevic over for trial in the Hague. But he's also a democrat who has promised to turn Serbia into a "normal" European country. It would be foolhardy, at this stage, to count out a streetfighter as seasoned as Milosevic, but there's no doubt that he's facing the fight...