Word: pulling
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...aides, is evidence of the thing that most clearly sets Royal apart. She's a woman. In the view of Royal's supporters, her worst enemies and the lady herself, femininity is key to her success. Royal readily acknowledges that her policies would have less of a pull if they weren't being laid out by a woman. "It's a symbol of change," she says. "Where men have failed, people think, O.K., maybe we'll try a woman." Her position has only been strengthened by the disdain she's drawn from rivals like former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius...
...whispers about Cruise: Is he too controlling? What creepy power does he have over his wife? What is he hiding? It is the sort of thing that, one suspects, a more powerful Cruise would have vetoed and that the media would have been scared to death to pull...
...Junior driver Chris Ludwick would score his third goal of the game with 1:38 left to pull within one, but Harvard could not tie it up on their final possession...
...rider, who asks to be identified only as Michel, says his fondest memories are of the 'incomparable euphoria of strength and power I'd get finding myself at the head of a tired and flagging pack, knowing I was about to pull away and ride to victory' ... Last year Michel, who is 25, underwent several weeks of specialized detoxification treatment for cocaine and heroin addiction developed during his racing career ... 'I first began using cortisone to work through injury pain. But because cortisone eats muscle, I began taking testosterone and nandrolone in the off-season to get it back faster...
...Over in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the hardest-hit African-American neighborhoods, landlord Donald Thomas has much the same hope. A paper mask over his mouth, Thomas is using a crowbar to pull nails from the frame of the house he grew up in and now rents out. Unemployed since Katrina flooded the Hyatt and took his job as a banquet captain, he is spending his time renovating. The city is in dire need of rental housing like his, since Katrina destroyed some 43,000 units, including 5,000 public housing apartments. Standing in the doorway...