Word: split
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...Lazio is a good Long Island Italian, a local boy from the suburbs, and he's eager to play the scrappy underdog, taking the stage to the strains of "Rocky" and joking that he'd like a rematch with the pavement that split his lip Monday. Never mind that after only a week, he's statistically even in the polls, or that with state Republicans (and, you can bet, the party's national PACs) behind him in his quest to beat a Clinton, any Clinton, he'll have running money by the truckload. And at this point Lazio might want...
...passengers participating in this global jaunt, about 500 signed on for the duration. Among the more popular short segments: the 15-day New York to San Francisco leg, which costs about $4,500 for an economy cabin, while a suite (the QE2 has two ultraluxurious, split-level penthouse apartments and a number of super-class master cabins and duplexes) fetches around $53,500. A suite for the entire cruise commands...
...Cherry hates the scandalmongers--those with "an alligator mouth on a hummingbird butt"--who have split his family into feuding halves. But he is also haunted by the suffering of others--the McNairs, the Robertsons, the Collinses, the Wesleys. "It needs to be settled for those families. Whether Dad did it or not, it needs to be finalized." Then perhaps four ghosts can have some peace...
...Force, Navy and Marines have changed a great deal already under boomer influence - women, gays. The trouble is that the military, by the nature of its work and code (duty, honor, country, sacrifice) is not exactly in the boomer spirit of things. Vietnam long ago produced a profound split in the generation - the Elite Draft Dodgers v. the Suckers Who Went. A generation that believes it should live forever is not the most effective material to send into battle. The old French decadent said: "As for living, we have servants who do that for us." The privileged boomer said...
...harassment will decline almost to zero. So will the incidence of pregnancies. Let older, more mature hormones exert their civilizing influence. (The commanding officer may want to have a word with Private Clinton on this matter). Boomer psyche: An all-middle-aged army would repair at last the moral split in the generation. (Those who served back then would, of course, not be expected to serve now, unless they wished to.) The boomers would feel better about themselves (if that is possible...