Word: boastfulness
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...long-running advertising campaign features diverse gun owners displaying their weapons and declaring, "I'm the N.R.A." But who really is the N.R.A. ? Though the group may boast its share of heavyset hunters with rifle racks in their pickups, typical members come from a more domesticated breed: white suburban men -- only 3% are women -- somewhat more affluent and better educated than the American norm. The dues-paying roster includes actor Charlton Heston, writer-editor Michael Korda and actor Jerry Mathers, the Beaver of sitcom fame...
...keep alive their shrinking market, tobacco companies have shown marketing genius by creating more than 300 brands that variously boast of being longer, slimmer, cheaper, flavored, microfiltered, pastel colored or even striped. A new R.J. Reynolds brand called Uptown looks typically glitzy with its black- and-gold box and promise of a tasty menthol blend. But the cigarette has provoked a response its maker never anticipated: passionate protest. Last week the tobacco company, which intended to begin test-marketing the cigarette next month in Philadelphia, canceled those plans after community groups and health organizations vehemently criticized the product. The reason...
...Nassau, Bahamas, has just the answer for jackpot winners wondering how to spend their money: sleep it away in the Galactica Suite. For $25,000 a night, guests can slumber in what is billed as the most expensive hotel suite in the world. The six high-tech rooms boast such extravagant features as an aquarium containing a giant stingray, artwork on the walls that can be changed electronically, and heat-detecting switches that turn on lights when a person walks into the room. The 2,500-sq.- ft. silver-and-white suite even comes equipped with a robot named Ursula...
...games in a 29-day stretch. But anyone who's claimed the title will tell you it's worth it. Waiting at the end of the arduous road is the rosy land known as the NCAA National Championship Tournament, a motivation no other sport in the Ivy League can boast for its champion...
Despite the lopsided statistics, the shabab boast of their accomplishments. "We've finally made the Israelis afraid of us," says an activist named Jamal, 21. His boyish face bespeaks both pride and intense anxiety. "You only die once," he says with some relief. Only once, like his friend Nadir Tayseer Abu Yasin, 14, who was "martyred" two days earlier. Jamal pulls out a photo of the dead boy taken moments after the shooting. "This is our fate...