Word: adopter
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...told Nader my outline for a campaign plan that would fix his image. My idea: apologize like crazy. I suggested that he adopt the slogan "My bad!" and produce campaign buttons with his head on Urkel's body, saying DID I DO THAT? Nader would come out onstage to Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again and maybe do one of those supershort apology trips to rehab, blaming his involvement in the 2000 election on Quaaludes or yerba mate or whatever drug someone like Ralph Nader might take. If the subtext of John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's campaigns...
...jogging in favor of long walks, and his hair is a halo of white. And he had come to deliver a very different message. Don't fall in love, he cautioned, simply because someone tells you that "we need to turn the page in America, and we need to adopt something fresh and new - whatever that...
There were mild upsets in the categories of Best Films You'll Never See. The Animated Short went to the lamest of the five nominees, an endless (27-minute) rendition of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf; and The Mozart of Pickpockets, about two doofus criminals who adopt an immigrant waif, was outshone by a droll Dutch gem, Tanghi Argentini, and a Danish hospital weepie, At Night. In a year when the best foreign-language films weren't even nominated, the Oscar went to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian drama about (really?) the Holocaust. Points to it, though, for lacing...
...playing out as a negative is his tendency to aggregate power, often at the expense of cabinet ministers who traditionally handle day to day governing. Last week Sarkozy surprised a meeting of Jewish leaders by announcing plans to raise awareness of the Holocaust by requiring elementary school students to "adopt" the life and death of a child killed during the Shoah. Had Sarkozy bothered to consult more widely before making the announcement, he might have avoided the storm of criticism calling the plan inappropriate and potentially traumatic for such young children. He has since modified that proposal in the face...
Markets have a way of meeting needs. Already, "reproductive tourists" travel to countries where looser rules might increase their odds of success. Could patients create as many embryos as they like and pick the best, as long as they line up couples to adopt the rest--or sell the extras to offset the costs? This is no wild plan; in the U.K. researchers offer women reduced rates on fertility treatment if they agree to donate half their harvested eggs for research...