Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...other end of Harvard Square, the JFK St. CVS location has been undergoing renovations all summer, moving to a smaller location next to the French bakery...
...opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough, lost no chance to paint Bush as a preppy-come-lately, not one of us. "Elect a Senator from Texas and not the Connecticut investment bankers," went the Yarborough campaign chants. As W. worked on his dad's campaign during his summer before college, he saw how poisonous the not-one-of-us stereotype could be. On election night, the narrow defeat was a huge blow. "I don't understand it," the father said at the time. "I guess I have a lot to learn about politics...
...perhaps "Government Agent in Bar" from Hoffa. Or we don't. But in Russia the Chicago-based character actor is nothing less than the new Lee Marvin. As "American" in the recently released Brother II--Russia's biggest domestically produced box-office hit this year (and sequel to the summer 1997 hit Brother)--Houston plays a corrupt ice hockey agent/Mob boss who embodies all the evils of the capitalist Red, White and Blue. "News to me," says Houston of his megahuge status in Murmansk. "I haven't seen the movie yet." Houston isn't even 100% sure his nefarious character...
...this air, crackling with arsonist summer lightning, that is burning up huge patches of forest in the American West. It is the worst fire season in 50 years, or maybe 65. Almost 4 million acres are on fire in California, Idaho, Montana, Utah and other states, and even with so many firefighters working them, the fires will not be extinguished until the fall, when rain and snow will...
...final foreign aid bill won't come out of Congress until September, when lawmakers return from their summer recess. In the meantime, Albright plans to hit the speaking circuit to complain about the trims, while her aides lobby behind the scenes to restore what's been hacked off. Otherwise "we're heading for a train wreck on foreign policy programs," warns one of her advisers...