Word: using
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...result, the building's traditional occupants will continue to use the space this year but their rights to the building in the future remain uncertain...
...destined for defeat, what does that make of the winners? This question hums throughout Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...well as the script. Mark Blum, who plays Russell's campaign manager, recounts an anecdote about mudslinging Gore told: "At one point Jackie Kennedy said to Gore, 'I know we have this whole big list of stuff on Nixon and I don't know why we just don't use it.' And Gore said 'Well, Jackie, you better be pretty damn glad we don't, because if we use ours, they use theirs...
...defuse things, the swimmers weren't cooperating. U.S. sprinter Gary Hall Jr. had said of the Australians that he and his teammates would "smash them like guitars." Aussie champ Kieren Perkins responded that he never listened to "drug cheats," a reference to Hall's 1998 suspension for marijuana use...
...July, Judge Parker dealt the prosecution two blows. He ruled that the defense could use highly sensitive material in court, forcing the government to accept a compromise of secret information. And he allowed Lee's lawyers to subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving...