Word: bossed
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Davis' staff members develop tics when you suggest their boss is Clinton, the triangulator, but without the action pants. They'd rather throw Tony Blair's name on the table for the way Blair moved England's Labour Party to the center. Even the Wall Street Journal made that comparison last month, holding its nose and flattering the Democratic Governor in the reluctant, quivering tone one might use to proclaim that proctological exams, while unpleasant, can be a good thing...
...spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
...kissed this boy, Tom Sullivan. He was just really nice. We used to go into the bushes and kiss. It was just a nice little relationship--very sweet. I could sort of boss him around, so I was like the leader. We were just really good friends and we liked to kiss...
Sounds like quite the windfall, does it not? True, some specialized skills are seen as advantageous, but who doesn't want to earn their helicopter pilot license anyway? The only problem is that one of the most important characteristics of a personal assistant is that the boss and his needs come first, while your deflated ego comes a paltry second...
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Skinny: Premature; Dayton accord, yes, but his boss gets an assist ODDS...