We were Southern whites from Nashville and skinheads from New Jersey, black kids from Cleveland wearing ghetto rags and white ex-cons with ham-hock forearms defaced by jailhouse tattoos.
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If not, change will come anyway--likely in the ham-fisted way that comes naturally to Washington.
On Saturdays he takes the men breakfast, and on Sundays -- his "day off" -- he brings them ham-and-cheese sandwiches.
There's something "organic" about "Star Wars, " says Scott, and Lucas tampered with that feeling when he made the newer films -- particularly thanks to his sometimes ham-fisted screenwriting.
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If you're a Labour MP the ill-tempered debate was about a 'partisan', 'ill-conceived', 'ill-judged', 'ham-fisted', 'high-handed', 'arrogant' - and I could go on - attempt to impose new electoral arrangements on the Assembly with little regard to what its members, or the people of Wales want, arrangements, at that, that'll favour the Tories in future elections.
The run-off pitted Vladimir Meciar, a ham-fisted ex-prime minister whose authoritarian style set Slovakia back half a decade in the 1990s, against Ivan Gasparovic, who was then Mr Meciar's right-hand man but later fell out with him.
The prevailing narrative on the right is that we are locked in a two-sided conflict pitting American business against ham-handed legislators and clueless regulators whose well-intentioned but misguided laws, regulations, taxes, and mandates threaten to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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During the trials, Ms. Knox became a highly divisive figure, depicted as a cunning she-devil in Italy and a victim of a ham-handed Italian justice system in the U.S. Critics charged that the case was based mostly on circumstantial evidence.
Villa have also recently signed full-back Stephen Warnock from Blackburn and completed a deadline-day deal for West Ham centre-back James Collins to strengthen their defence following the retirement of Martin Laursen and the sale of Zat Knight to Bolton.
Somewhere in this stew of stories is an attempt to savor the many ingredients of a modern multicultural city, as well as an old-style injunction to follow your dream, but neither is discernible for long, due to the ham-fisted nature of the filmmaking.
At 3-0, West Ham looked down-and-out but the Hammers showed glimpses of the brilliant comeback that was to follow, when Ba found space from Noble's corner only to see his shot expertly palmed onto the post by Boaz Myhill and eventually hacked off the line by James Morrison.
The second chance came just before the interval - from West Ham's first corner - when Matthew Upson headed the ball on and Tristan flicked the ball goalwards only for Jon Mikel Obi to clear off the line.
But bigger worries predate the glitch, not least the ham-fisted handling of quarrels over existing domains.
Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
Jets get bounced around in thunderstorms and in mountain turbulence, as well as by ham-handed pilots.
Then Cirrus owners raucously debate whether blame goes to a flawed part or a ham-fisted owner.
Handled in a ham-handed manner, you have yourself a Cool Hand Luke failure to communicate.
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And the GOP doesn't do much to win them over with its ham-handed approach to immigration.
The melodrama opens on a lighthearted note, but Ms. Serreau leaps in with fairly ham-fisted farce.
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It certainly tells you more than the ham-handed treatment of the subject in the new Julian Fellowes miniseries.
His brash approach struck filmmakers, agents and producers as ham-handed, and he won few allies in the creative community.
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The Negroponte team does not understand this vital position and is ham-handedly undermining the role we need it to play.
This reality is something to keep in mind the next time someone berates Putin for his ham-handed and unsuccessful economic management.
The names most often mentioned as possible contenders for the deputy presidency are Najib and former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Ham-zah.
Shadow communities and local government secretary Hilary Benn said the "ham-fisted" way the government had handled the process had created uncertainty.
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However, that decision should be made independent of some ham-handed blowout rule.
Women dominate the show's viewership and the ham-fisted replacement of anchor Ann Curry with Savannah Guthrie last year tore at the show's popularity.
"Gordon Brown's growing failure as prime minister and his ham-fisted treatment of a popular MP have resulted in disaster for Labour, " he said.
"It's still kind of ham-handed, but it served a strategic purpose, " said Trevor Parry-Giles, a political communication professor at the University of Maryland.
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