Mrs Palin is the kind of female politician that only a certain kind of redneck, red-state, red-meat guy could vote for.

ECONOMIST: The London Stock Exchange

The owner, a cadaverously pale guy with red hair, suggested he go to Arromanches, unless he wanted to sleep in one of the auberges that stayed open all year round.

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Everybody at the brokerage firm the famously aggressive Dean Witter, for heaven's sake comes across as a decent human being, even the guy with the red Ferrari who first suggests a career in stockbroking.

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He claims an early personal lesson in how red tape is a proportionately bigger burden for the small guy: in college Mr Lindsey faced reams of red tape when trying to set up a summertime hot-dog stall.

ECONOMIST: The

Mr Bono more solemnly went on to say that Mr Buck is a devoted family man who, though he enjoys a glass of good red wine as much as the next guy, is wholly incapable of the raucous antics of which he is accused.

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Later, as Becky made her way to the bar, flashing a warm smile was all it took for a tall, handsome guy sipping a glass of red wine to ask her which sport she was watching (we were in a sports bar, because that's where you go when you're looking for bountiful testosterone).

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Margaret and I were sprawled out on the grassy bank of the Mississippi River, taking a break from the French Quarter Festival, when I noticed, a few feet away, a familiar, homeless-looking guy with an eight-inch red beard and a piratical soldier rag tied around his head.

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"The guy has jumped in with two feet, so it's a straight red, " declared Hughes.

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Probably ad nauseum for Red Sox fans to read this list of accomplishments, but it drives home the point that here is a guy that made himself a great player over his career by being really good at a lot of different things.

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