Word: raining
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Election Day be a national holiday. It should be a day of contemplation and choice, not running out on your lunch break in the rain. Yes, some people will take the day off, and play hooky from the polls. So be it. The inspired will vote if they want to matter, just like always...
...Dogs. Few living beings are more excited by your return than large wet dogs back from a walk in the rain, and few take longer to dry. Their great penchant for exploring the bushes, yards and alleys of the neighborhood never flags, no matter how inclement the weather. Thanks to Livingstone, I have learned, indispensably, that the only way to get a recalcitrant dog out from under the bed is to ring the doorbell...
...Distance. There is nothing like a commute to create the idea of home. Though the walk to the house is not long it has, this weekend, been entirely full of rain in both directions. Each will to leave (excluding the walks around the block: see #6) is a deliberate venture into the world. As a resident of a river House, these details of journey are fascinating...
...dozen members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) joined representatives from about 20 schools, braving intermittent freezing rain to demonstrate for nearly four hours in front of the Gap and Niketown--stores which PSLM members said sell clothing produced under poor labor conditions...
...Unity-shmunity, says Rush Limbaugh. All afternoon as I drive south toward New York in the rain, Limbaugh hoots and brays on the radio: Men cry Peace! Peace! But there is no peace! Let sentimentalist headline writers proclaim A TIME TO HEAL. Let Chris Matthews of "Hardball" go all soft and teary at the noble Gore concession; let the New York Times' columnist Tom Friedman claim that Gore, in his concession, "took a bullet for his country...