Word: boastful
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Those Bushes - they love serial schmoozing. Twelve years ago, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the family's first President used to boast about the number of world leaders he'd managed to telephone in an afternoon. Now his son has caught the bug. Six days before he was due to give a speech at the United Nations, President Bush spoke about Iraq to his opposite numbers in France, China and Russia. The next day Bush was host to British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David before preparing to meet Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Sept...
...while Harvard may boast star power at its skill positions, there are serious question marks everywhere else. There was irony in the fact that while Rose, Morris and Balestracci were mugging for the camera and fielding interviews left and right Friday, the players who may prove most critical in determining Harvard’s fate this year were literally standing off in the shadows...
...have set the record for the highest-altitude outdoor rock concert. The thin air at 12,000 ft. had Beijing rocker boys taking oxygen hits onstage between songs. There may have been 100 times the crowd at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969, but China's Woodstock can boast at least one thing in common with its American counterpart: the mud. It had been raining in Lijiang for a solid month. Not far from the festival grounds, mud slides killed more than 50 people the week before the event began...
...record for the highest altitude outdoor rock concert. The thin air at 3,700 meters has sickly Beijing rocker boys taking oxygen hits onstage between songs. The crowd at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969 may have been a hundred times bigger, but "China's Woodstock" can boast at least one thing in common with its American counterpart: the mud. It's been raining in Lijiang for a solid month. Not far from the festival grounds, mudslides have recently killed more than 50 people...
SMALL TREATS Nanjing, unlike many Chinese cities, doesn't boast about its tasty snacks. While Shanghainese love to brag about their steamed pork buns and Beijingers crow about their boiled dumplings, Nanjing keeps its particular brand of xiao chi, or little snacks, under wraps. The best way to sample Nanjing's unsung delectables at their most authentic is to join the early morning crowds in the Wenchang Xiang neighborhood, a few blocks from People's Square. You'll find dozens of dexterous cooks already up and kneading, shaping, frying and baking all manner of snacks...