Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Yale entered a five-way tie for the Ivy League lead with a 27-24 win over Penn at the Yale Bowl, while wide receiver Johnson broke the school's record for career receiving yardage...
...good can come of all this, it should be something in the way of an American political housecleaning. Toxins need to be flushed out of the system from time to time. Over the years, we have built up too much poison in our politics and government. We should seize the occasion of this fiasco, one way or another, to rinse...
...over the place - flooding the basement, short-circuiting the media wires, driving the snakes out of their holes. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is an optimist, thinks the current mess might actually attract fresh, idealistic talents to politics. Perhaps it will happen. But first we must find a way to ostracize the old egos...
...will already be in session on January 20, the Speaker will most likely be Republican Dennis Hastert. If for any reason the Coach can't take over the top job, next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, the venerable Strom Thurmond ("pro tempore," by the way, is fancy lingo for "oldest guy"). This of course has led to lots of ageist chuckling (the most outrageous: the Onion's assertion that a President Thurmond would appoint Orval Faubus as Secretary of Slaves...
...reason the census is relevant to the imbroglio in Florida is because it has to do with theories of counting citizens (or voters, if you prefer) - and the way Democrats and Republicans divide on that issue directly mirrors the tactics of the Gore and Bush forces in Tallahassee...