Word: bended
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...Algonquin-style dinners featuring such guests as Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Quincy Jones. "He's an excellent host," says Tony Gilroy, director of Michael Clayton. "He's really smart about figuring out what people need and want. Are they hot? Happy? Cold? Thirsty? He has that ability to bend himself to the space he's in and instantly adjust to the group he's with." So I wondered, Can George Clooney possibly be a guest? Or is that just against the natural order of things? And what would I even cook? All his assistant would...
...seal the victory.“We’re happy with the win, but I think we were fortunate to come away with a victory,” Donato said. “Princeton gave us a lot of pressure situations tonight and we were able to bend and not break.”An uneventful first period ended in a scoreless tie, but Princeton was quicker to the puck throughout and held a 10-5 shot advantage for the period. “I don’t know if it was an emotional letdown from [the Beanpot...
...Southern California by diverting goods to a port in western Mexico and transporting them to Midland. Marfans see a plan that could fill Midland's pockets but potentially devastate Marfa's culture, lifestyle and economy, based in large part on tourism thanks to Marfa's proximity to Big Bend National Park and its reputation as an artists' haven (artists and galleries have been a fixture in town since celebrated sculptor Donald Judd relocated here from New York...
...Whatever problems Countrywide had, he concluded, came from bad decisions at the top, not malfeasance on the ground. Once the deal closes later this year, Lewis pledges to do right by Countrywide's borrowers. "We will bend over backwards not to foreclose," he says. "We will find a way to work things...
Whether or not Barack Obama goes on to win the nomination - and let's not forget in the afterglow that this is truly an open question - his field army will endure and, because of their immense skill, they will bend the political process to their will in years to come. And years from now, when they meet in the corridors of power or academia or at the inevitable reunions, they'll look at each other and smile, and they won't even have to say the words: We did something amazing back in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, didn...