Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...does much of its work in private. His campaign team is frustrated by Allen's in-your-face approach and his habit of harping on the 50?-per-gal. gas-tax hike Robb proposed in 1993. They're trying desperately to focus on Robb's strengths, such as his support for the Balanced Budget Act in the Senate and his success as Governor in raising teachers' salaries. As strategist David Doak put it, "You can't spend all your time trying to correct the record...
...great assets is that the listener understands every word. Moving to the new label seems to have reinvigorated Jones, who is at his vocal peak on this and the several albums that followed over the next couple of years. He also receives just the right amount of studio support. On "Three's a Crowd," in particular, there is great piano and pedal steel work as well as a judicious use of backup singers. This is exactly the right amount of lushness for Jones - just enough to create atmosphere and not too much to overwhelm him. If you like this period...
Harvard Hillel hosted a speaker last night on the crisis in Israel. It will also hold an emergency town hall meeting this morning from 9:30 to 11:30 to discuss support for Israel and the appropriate community response. Hillel's steering committee is also asking students to be particularly careful about security in the building...
...when situations become unbearable, she breaks into a musical number, which takes place in her mind, a form of mental dissociation. Tragically, her savings are stolen by a local sheriff, Bill (David Morse), who rents her a house on his property. Ashamed that he won't be able to support his prodigal wife, he forces Selma to kill him in exchange for the money. Upon recovering the money, Selma pays an eye clinic in advance for her son's operation, and then is arrested and put on trial, and the love for her son is truly tested...
...split hairs.) With U.S. sailors dead in a likely terrorist attack on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...