Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...everyone in the Gore camp knew, even if Coelho had been healthy, he would have had to quit sooner or later. Gore's aides would have preferred him to pick a quieter moment (the Fourth of July would have been nice), but most didn't try to hide their jubilation when he left. Coelho had been a divisive figure inside Goreland, not so much because he fired top aides and cut off longtime advisers before the primaries (that was necessary) but because he was routinely imperious and ham-fisted in his dealings with staff. And he was a growing liability...
...medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along with toothpaste, shampoo, socks and underwear--all donated by Phoenix residents. Once a month, Pappas holds birthday parties replete with clowns, cake and a closetful of new toys from which honorees can pick a doll or racing...
Jeffrey Wright makes quite an entrance in Shaft. He arrives with a phalanx of lackeys and junkyard dogs, an ice pick in his pocket and a trash-talking mouth aimed point-blank at Samuel L. Jackson. It's the kind of grand, self-important entrance you haven't seen since Liberace stopped making TV specials. And for the rest of the movie, Wright lives up to that moment with his broadly drawn, carefully shaded performance as Peoples Hernandez, a drug kingpin and the first great movie villain of this millennium...
...Pick the right coif for this week's newsmakers...
...when Democrats returned to Chicago, Daley pulled off a dazzling convention, erasing the memory of the strife-torn 1968 debacle that for a generation had haunted his city, his party and his family. In 1996, after Ron Brown's tragic death, Clinton turned to Daley to pick up the pieces of the Commerce Department. The post wasn't the usual rescue operation but the fulfillment of a dream born when, as a 12-year-old, Daley visited J.F.K.'s White House and sat at the Cabinet table. He loved...