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...like in his eagerness to connect with the next generation of Chinese asking him questions first in their native tongue and then again in nearly flawless English. To the frustration of his translator, Bush interjected new remarks while she was catching up with his old ones. The message was blunt: liberty and religious freedom will make China a great power. But Bush also leavened his moralizing. "America has its own faults and problems," he told the audience packed in the narrow marble hall. "We are on our own long journey towards justice...
DIED. PAULINE TRIGERE, 93, outspoken fashion diva whose elegant yet practical designs were worn by Bette Davis, Dina Merrill and the Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. The first major designer to hire an African-American model, Trigere was famously generous--and blunt. At one show, she explained the upside of a low-cut dress by offering, "You can see the boobs better...
...most part, Pete’s only contact with the firms he applied to was through the Office of Career Services (OCS) standard rejection e-mail, which is unusually blunt and makes not even the pretense of being from a real person—the sender is one “ocsrec@fas.harvard.edu...
...Then came the guests unseen, uninvited - the bad guys that Bush's presidency has been built on fighting. About them, Bush was blunt. He reminded the audience what had been found in the smoked-out holes of Afghanistan - blueprints of U.S. nuclear plants, surveillance maps of major cities, instructions on chemical-weapon manufacture. He pointed to the harboring nations, the future hotspots that the Pentagon already has on simmer - the Phillipines. Bosnia. Somalia. Iran. Iraq. And he pointed to the "tens of thousands of killers, schooled in the methods of murder" are still out there, and still intent on bringing...
...years older and the frail veteran of 47 years in politics; Pakistan's is a fit career soldier whose political life began just two years ago in a military coup. Vajpayee is a master orator given to flights of poetry; Musharraf is a plainspoken man with a blunt, forthright style. The first has succeeded by adroitly sidestepping conflict and finessing confrontation, the second by cutting straight to the core of a problem...