Word: bents
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Sorrowful, defiant, astonished, lonely, thoughtful, humiliated, triumphant. Photographers captured the full range of moods in their subjects. An aging prelate, bent and frail, visited his homeland; an American President, coatless and determined, rallied his troops. In the Middle East, where few things shock, a Palestinian leader stared bug-eyed at his bed, speckled with debris after an Israeli attack. A teenager from Great Neck, N.Y., skated off the Olympic ice into the arms of her coach, with a look that told all the world she was a winner. And in the most touching coda to the year, a young widow...
...head of the GOP Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Tennessee Senator is in very good stead with his fellow party members. A heart surgeon by training, Frist, who votes a very conservative line on most issues, is known to depart from his party's position on issues with a scientific bent, including stem cell research and extending care for AIDS patients...
...What slows him is the rhythms of his region and his culture; he is a Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means he is solid, stolid and silent, except when exchanging arm's-length pleasantries with his friends. Like so many men of his class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha, Neb.) where the agreed-upon illusion is stability. Schmidt is probably in touch with certain things: his football team, his wife's tuna-noodle casserole and, at this season...
...George W. Bush could not have anticipated just how far the Stalinist state would go to earn the label. While Bush's foreign policy team tries to stay focused on stripping Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction it may possess, the North's leader Kim Jong Il seems bent on demonstrating that his own regime is just as menacing. At least Saddam Hussein claims to harbor no biological, chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords. And last week, in an apparent reaction to the high-seas interdiction of a shipment...
Lurie, an irreverent Demon editor, and Misono, a Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra violinist, bring an academic rather than political bent to the council race, which they criticize as fraught with overblown promises...