John has picked a reform-minded ... hockey-mommin' ... basketball shootin' ... moose huntin' ... fly-fishin' ... pistol-packing ... mother of five for vice president.

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Margaret Beckett, his cabinet colleague, says that banning fox-hunting will have to wait until the House of Lords has been reformed, because of all those huntin', shootin', hereditary peers.

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It's a peach of a role (it hardly needs pointing out that Eastwood has a long history of putting himself up against strong, independent women), and Adams is charming as a smart, attractive, career-driven, pool shootin', baseball lovin', perpetually thwarted daddy's girl.

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