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...that hard-driving bosses may have hearts of nougat underneath their crunchy dark chocolate coats is not exactly a novel one either. You can't blame Hathaway, who is a winsome actress, for this resort to cliché. When she has to out-maneuver Miranda's other assistant (Emily Blunt) for the most favored spot in the executive suite, she shows plenty of moxie. You're not exactly certain she knows exactly what she's doing, but you also see that she has an unacknowledged instinct for the jugular, which she ever so sweetly deploys. You surely can't blame...
...question was blunt, even impudent. A foreign journalist asked President George W. Bush whether he regretted that "most Europeans consider the United States the biggest threat to global stability" - worse than Iran or North Korea. However debatable the premise, it was based on a Harris poll of 5,000 Europeans that had been featured on the front page of the Financial Times of London the day before Bush set off on his 15th trip to Europe...
...quite match her ability to induce people to take deeply seriously what is obvious satire. I'm not saying Coulter doesn't believe what she says - if you talk with her mother, whos even more conservative, youll know that she does - but she knows that outrage is the blunt cousin of argument, that irony is more accessible than a thousand position papers. She knows that saying what no one else would dare to say will get her attention. It works every time, as it did this week when Coulter attacked one of America's most hallowed, untouchable figures - the 9/11...
...interest rates would continue to rise in order to keep inflation in check, all of which sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow falling more than 2%, or almost 250 points, in the first two days of the week. The harsh reaction wasn't just due to Bernanke's unusually blunt outlook, though certainly the stock market doesn't like higher interest rates, which tend to crimp corporate profits as people are lured to save money instead of spend. It was also that his position on interest rates flat out shocked the markets ? and there are few things investors dislike more...
...weeks of denial for Africa's most durable dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, finally came to an end on Thursday, when his three top generals asked for an urgent meeting. The trio was uncharacteristically blunt. They told Mobutu they could no longer protect him or the capital of Kinshasa from the approaching rebel army of Laurent Desire Kabila, and that if Mobutu valued his life he should flee. A commander had driven to the front east of Kinshasa that morning and concluded that government soldiers would not fight to save Mobutu's crumbling regime...