Word: bragging
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...like to brag, but I myself won the coveted award seven and a half years ago, for my magazine cover story designating the newly elected Bill Clinton as TIME's Man of the Year. In retrospect, I do not claim that the award was entirely undeserved; I gushed a lot, and I did not foresee Monica Lewinsky. Sue me. But for the honor of the award, I would have felt better if Bozell had simply called me up and told me the truth: "You're a f---ing idiot...
...Council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01says that getting 250 responses is not necessarily anything to brag about...
...crowd in Hilton Head last Wednesday morning wasn't much to brag about--roughly 250 people had shown up at a local marina to hear George W. Bush--but the candidate was pumped just the same. In the big debate the night before, he'd finally managed to get the better of John McCain. More important, Bush had unleashed the dogs of war against his rival--saturation TV and radio attacks, hundreds of thousands of telephone and direct-mail blasts, everything short of leaflets dropping from the skies above South Carolina. The dogs were tearing into McCain, raising questions about...
...able to come across as genuinely humble is that he's not talking to us at all; he's talking to Slew and to his dad. By their standards, he did his duty and did it well, but that was what was expected of him and not something to brag about...
...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...