Word: poste
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...
...choice is even tougher, as this weekend and the next will see four different productions of the Bard's work going up around campus. The upcoming shows offer perspectives ranging from a minimalist treatment of Romeo and Juliet to an elaborate staging of Trollius and Cressida as a post-apocalyptic desert rave. "I can't think of a more different set of productions than the four that will be going up in the next two weeks," said director Josh Edelman '00, whose version of Twelfth Night is set in the Beat and Jazz Era culture of northern California...
...have a long institutional history, and sometimes that's helpful," says Rodley, who has held the post for 15 years...
...long as George W. Bush has friends like these, it would appear that Al Gore can take a nice, long vacation until November. Much to chagrin of Bush's campaign, the National Rifle Association, according to a report in the Washington Post, has been boasting about its "unbelievably friendly relations" with the Texas governor. In a video obtained by the Post of a Los Angeles branch meeting in February, NRA vice president Kayne Robinson, who is widely expected to take over the top job from Charlton Heston, tells the audience that "the NRA will have... a President where we work...
...number of Supreme Court Justices, the implication that Bush would be unwilling to change the status quo on guns may become even less palatable. Feeling the heat over the boast, a Bush campaign spokesman was quick to deny that their man is close to the NRA, telling the Post, "Neither the NRA or any other special interest sets the governor's agenda." But, says Tumulty, managers will have their work cut out for them keeping the NRA and its supporters at a respectable distance without offending their sensibilities or sealing off their bank accounts...