Word: boring
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Having gone 0 for 8 with Democratic presidential candidates, political consultant Bob Shrum is exporting his golden touch as an adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Sept. 24, Brown delivered an address that bore Shrum's fingerprints, including phrases strikingly similar to those in speeches by former clients Bill Clinton and Al Gore. And true to form, Brown's Labour Party promptly dropped in the polls...
...fazed. "If I had run the company based on the opinion of financial analysts, it would already have been bankrupt," he says, half jokingly. He points out that some of the company's current best growth markets, including Russia and China, required a decade of investment before they bore fruit...
...something about a football game. Our intrinsic distaste for Yalies goes unquestioned, but this long-standing rivalry had to begin somewhere. Seriously, why do we hate them so much? Back in 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game of “football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard declined an invitation to hash out official rules for the game alongside Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale. It wasn’t until 1874, when...
...been forced to act because of a rise in extremism in the country. And he accused the Supreme Court of "weakening the government's resolve" to fight terrorism by ordering the release of 61 suspected terrorists in the government's custody. But it wasn't the extremists who bore the brunt of Musharraf's wrath. Indeed, even as his regime cracked down on lawyers, journalists and human-rights activists, it agreed to a cease-fire with a powerful militant leader who had taken 213 soldiers hostage in the lawless northwestern region. The irony was not lost on Asma Jahangir, Pakistan...
...Maxim, and, for me, a good meal. This summer I got my first taste of financial independence—and of being broke. I realized that exorbitant meat prices meant that I was going to become a de facto vegetarian, a horrible fate for someone whose truck back home bore the bumper sticker, “I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat a salad.” I had developed a life-long aversion to vegetarianism, growing up in a place where most vegetarians and vegans were aged hippies...