Word: boastful
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...logo resembled the word Allah in Arabic. And it's not just English speakers who miscommunicate. If Electrolux made shoddy vacuum cleaners, it wouldn't be one of the world's most successful home-appliance makers. But the Swedish company first entered the English-speaking market with this boast: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux...
...sure to be a great photo op when Russian President Putin trots around President Bush's ranch this week. The two will stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism and boast a series of economic and other agreements. Look closer, though, and you'll see saddle sores. Bush officials tell TIME that late last month Russia rejected a U.S.-proposed ceiling for strategic nuclear weapons, objecting that the proposed cap of about 2,000 warheads was still too high. The rebuff forced Under Secretary of State John Bolton to work through last week in Moscow to try to get the Russians...
Kill one bin Laden and a hundred will stand up to take his place - that's been the boilerplate slogan among the Saudi terror mogul's worldwide supporters these past six weeks. But if the latest boast from al-Qaeda is anything to go by, they may mean it in more than just the I-am-Spartacus sense. The London-based Arab newspaper Al Hayat last Saturday quoted an al-Qaeda spokesman claiming that bin Laden has recruited at least ten lookalikes over the years, preparing them to play decoy in the same way that Saddam Hussein has reputedly done...
Against the Quakers—who boast one of the nation’s best rushing defenses—Murphy made what may have been his boldest call yet. On Harvard’s opening series, the Crimson ran 13 plays. All but four of them were handoffs to senior tailback Josh Staph, who gained the majority of his 54 rushing yards on that drive alone. Harvard didn’t score on the series, but that was not necessarily the point...
Against the Quakers—who boast one of the nation’s best rushing defenses—Murphy made what may have been his boldest call yet. On Harvard’s opening series, the Crimson ran 13 plays. All but four of them were handoffs to senior tailback Josh Staph, who gained the majority of his 54 rushing yards on that drive alone. Harvard didn’t score on the series, but that was not necessarily the point...