Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires in his father-in-law's store, a bunch of bowling buddies, an old van and--can it get worse for this chic Manhattanite?--he lives in New Jersey...
...That's why the battle-scarred, perennial-bridesmaid governor of New Jersey is finally going to be called up to the show by George W. Bush, as soon as Friday: To get a pro-choice female face in a safe place, where she won't start an abortion debate in the middle of his high-speed transition. "Good men can disagree," he likes to say, but he'd really rather not talk about...
...would appear that Bush has soothed all beasts thus far by making his diversity acceptable to his right flank. Right? But ah, the left - there are scattered reports that Senate Democrats will subject Whitman to a hot roasting over her gross ham-handedness with racial profiling in New Jersey. We might even get to see the picture of her frisking the innocent black motorist - and grinning...
...Bible-thumping crowd will let Bush have Whitman - she's pro-business, New Jersey isn't nearly as polluted as it used to be, and baby-killing isn't in the job description. And besides, Health and Human Services looks to be in safe hands of Tommy Thompson...
...same information technology that allows George Soros to move billions of dollars in and out of emerging markets at a keystroke also allows Osama Bin Laden, from the dusty mountains of Afghanistan, to maintain a global terror network whose members are as likely to be in New Jersey as in Yemen or the Philippines...