Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Craig Kilborn are still developing. He looked for comedy in everyday trivia, taking a mike into the audience or turning on a camera outside the studio and simply commenting on people coming in and out of the Hollywood Ranch Market across the street. In one recurring bit, he would pick up a copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry letters to the editor, with all the vehemence the unseen correspondents would have wanted. He loved concocting wild physical bits, which got their fizz from the sight of this urbane, bespectacled, Brooks Brothers...
Both presidential candidates have Harvard degrees--Vice President Al Gore '69 from the College and Texas Gov. George W. Bush from Harvard Business School. Whoever ends up in the Oval Office will be able to pick up the phone and call Mass. Hall to talk with the winner of a different kind of presidential search...
Toddler: Yeah, George. If this was recess, I'd pick you first for the kick-ball team...
Voice-over: "George W. Bush. First pick for kick-ball. First pick for Delta Kappa Epsilon. First pick for president...
Another nominee might have added some fabric softener after the primaries, concentrated on more centrist stuff, and a lot of senior Republicans argued privately for Bush to do just that, to pick up John McCain's more austere economic approach instead, emphasize debt reduction and iron out the wrinkles in the tax plan. But Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing...