Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...other hand, is a rather strange individual. He has seemed in the campaign like a rapper on MTV, all strut and no strength. He cannot summon the courage to break with his patrons (the unions, the White House) but is aggressive and cutting in the pursuit of power; he will divide to conquer. He is a sophisticated man, and yet he speaks the language of yesterday's class warfare. He seems at times like an illustration of the idea that some modern men have become, in the great age of feminism, confused about what...
...America is a strong country, but it may not be able to sustain another fabulist; one can be called an accident, a trick of history, but two would amount to a culture of governance, a way of being. It is by institutionalizing the acceptability of lies that a great power becomes a punch line...
...Gore treatment is equally controversial. He wants to send educational "SWAT teams" armed with extra cash into failing schools. If after two years that hasn't turned the schools around, states would have the power to shut the schools down and reopen them with new teachers and administrators...
Thirty cheerleaders are leaping across mats in a dizzying blur of motion and power. A double back handspring whips by, making room for another and another. Then, as Queen blares over a CD player, three groups interlock hands and hurl three tiny teammates 30 ft. into the air. Like fireworks, the girls' bodies hang, open, then descend gracefully into the arms of waiting teammates...
...with a gliding grace, and when he could no longer do those things he...well, he looked great in a suit. But as Richard Ben Cramer establishes in his absolutely persuasive DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster; 546 pages; $28), Joe D. had a secret. He knew the power of silence. The less he gave, standing remote and noble and regally aloof, the more the world took it as evidence of dignity...