Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...father?" they knew just what to say. "Well, he's more ideological, more conservative. He's just much more interested in domestic policy than his father." The big guns from Dad's White House, the Bakers and Scowcrofts, would be heard but not seen, but all their younger, less visible deputies, like Condi Rice and Larry Lindsey, climbed onboard for a second tour. "The whole goal was to be different from the father," says an official who has worked for both father and son. "It didn't need to be written down. There weren't that many people who needed...
...inside the family is that your father is perfect. A legendary Andover athlete, George Sr. went to war and became a hero, came home and became a husband, went to Yale and became a star: Phi Beta Kappa, baseball-team captain, fraternity president, Skull and Bones member--all in less than four years and always upholding the family code. At supper with parents Prescott and Dorothy, boys were expected to wear ties and use the right fork. There was lots of love but no sloppy affection--and certainly no sass, much less open rebellion. "See, Senior was never a child...
Another man in a polo shirt walked past the mass of police and, ducking through a crowd, remarked to a few onlookers: "All of this for high school kids? They would have been all right with one car. They had less than this for the riots after they killed Martin Luther King," he said...
Adams, though, has been less than pleased with the filming process in Cambridge due to the unceasing rain...
...Those students who are less immersed in the culture of college admissions and are more naive, might think that summer school will help them get in," Koppert says...