Word: loving
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...education, Bush's self-proclaimed first love, it's a Texan. Rod Paige is superintendent of schools in Houston and presumably one of the inspirations for Bush's own education dreams. Bush dusted off an old slogan for Paige on Friday, calling him a "reformer with results," and added that Paige has shown in Houston that "urban schools can be excellent schools." Oh, and he's black, which makes three in so far in the inner circle...
...Chronic rejection and unrequited love are the twin plinths of Schulz's early life and later work. Even when he had become the one cartoonist known and loved by people around the world, he could still say, with conviction, "My whole life has been one of rejection...
...professional pride in the achievements of the strip. But pride in one's work does not automatically override years of early disappointments to create pride in one's self, and Schulz struggled to the end of his life to believe that he himself was worthy of the respect and love his admirers showered on him. "It is amazing that they think that what I do was that good," he said on the "Today" show in 1999. His voice quavered and he seemed as if he might break down when he said: "I just did the best I could...
...thought, yes, there is. It has happened to me once or twice. Love at first sight sets you on fire. Friendship at first sight kindles a steadier and, well, friendlier heat...
...could see suddenly made tax cuts a stump speech staple again. "It's your money," Bush used to say - and soon the targeted vs. across-the-board debate reared its head as a partisan issue. But in the fight for the swing voters who had slowly learned to love fiscal discipline, tax cuts were not high on their presidential to-do list. Perhaps the best that could be said of Bush's $1.3-trillion-dollar baby is that it didn't cost him the election...