Word: appearences
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...traveling buddy Marissa and I were nursing our pints by the bar in the small Welsh town of Caernerfon when the pub door opened, and three young Welshmen came storming into the smoky room. Being regular Canadian girls, we tried to appear as nonchalant as possible (as if strapping UK studs were just old news) as the loudest of the lot picked up Marissa’s jacket from the floor and said, “Oy, did you drop this then...
...Professor Martin will have done an excellent job of bringing diversity to the campus if, during the course of her tenure, there will appear as many conservative thinkers in the Government Department and other departments as there currently are female professors on campus,” Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an e-mail...
...right. Chevron has not yet countered, so CNOOC's remains the richer bid as Unocal shareholders prepare to vote on Aug. 10. But despite all the high-priced bankers and lobbyists, Fu did not appear to be prepared for what Schurtenberger had discussed at the board meeting in late March: the political firestorm the bid would provoke in the U.S. Fu, CNOOC sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency...
...guts, we know that a President phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual. The scandal generated over Arroyo's calls is both contrived and hypocritical: we are not supposed to know this happens, but because the conversations appear to have been caught on tape, our explicit code of proper civic behavior compels us to feign disgust. We have to go through the motions of being scandalized. One side of our schizophrenic political culture must be appeased. After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation...
...prolonged period of time, would tell their interrogators what they wanted to hear. I find it significant that when Detainee 063 finally confessed to al-Qaeda involvement, he stated he was doing it "to get out of here." The interrogation techniques currently used by the U.S. on suspected terrorists appear unethical and outrageous and will only garner us more enemies. Roya Fouladi Santa Ana, California...