Word: wraps
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Michigan Governor John Engler has done everything he could to gift wrap the G.O.P. nomination for George W. Bush. He banged the drum for Bush with his fellow Governors and got 18 of them to endorse the Texan early last year. He helped Bush write his education proposal and then pitched in to sell it. And in a move Engler thought would secure more than just the nomination, he moved up his state primary by a month, to Feb. 22, so that Michigan would be the real fire wall--the place where Bush's rivals would flame out for good...
...well this weekend because of all the hard work that we've been putting in," junior Dan Barnes said. "We're starting to wrap up our season and are looking forward to Easterns [in early March...
...thing's for sure - Bush is nervous. Sure, everyone has been talking about firewalls; how W. doesn't need to worry because John Engler is going to wrap Michigan up in a nice blue box and personally deliver it to Austin; how there's no way in heck that McCain walks out of California a viable candidate. And yet Bush is worried, because even as a relative political neophyte he knows that the easiest and best way to stop your opponent is never to let him get started. So he's staking quite a bit of his capital here, both...
...TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders points out that the ensuing legal maneuvers will probably grant Tarver quite a lengthy reprieve. "Tarver argued that he couldn't legally be electrocuted, and in Alabama, that means he can't be executed. Any judicial review will take months, if not years, to wrap up," says Sanders. The Court was poised several months ago to examine a similar case in Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular (and, its supporters argue, more "humane") lethal injection as its chief method of execution. Tarver's lawyers are hoping...
...office is abuzz. Computer screens glow as editors, sustained by caffeine, frantically click at their keyboards putting finishing touches on their babies. Red-eyed editors litter the floor amid a wasteland of sleeping bags. The trash overflows with tinfoil and napkins, remnants of late night stops at The Wrap. As the sun rises over Cambridge, some editors panic and some breathe a heavy sigh of relief...