Word: brashness
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...never been exposed to real politics before," the diplomat says. "People couldn't take him seriously." Starting this week, Europe will have plenty of new chances to take him seriously. As the media tycoon turned Prime Minister assumes the E.U.'s rotating six-month presidency, his brand of brash, simple, big- picture politics will reach a continent-wide audience. He takes center stage at a crucial juncture in the Union's history: 10 countries are set to join next year, the details of the new constitution must be hammered out and the E.U.'s tattered relations with the United States...
...dressed in school-uniform blue suits with white shirts and red ties. Photographer Weng Peijun takes a hard look at modern urban China in his On the Wall series, in which a schoolgirl sits astride walls facing the cold skyscrapers of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities. Comment on the brash new consumerist society sprouts up in Beijing artist Song Dong's Edible Bonsais, miniature landscapes of ham hock mountains, prosciutto hills and broccoli-flower trees. "What About China?" doesn't pretend to be comprehensive - it doesn't include unofficial artists or those from the worldwide diaspora - but it does provide...
Like so many championship clubs, the 2002 team had prevailed and then parted, leaving only a few contributors behind to begin again. The result was a kamikaze club of fearless first-timers and breakthrough veterans, charging at the title with a brash confidence uniquely...
There wasn't much romance in campaign-finance reform, either, but John McCain managed to make it into a rollicking adventure in 2000. McCain was a brash, confident, unfettered candidate. The Democrats have been too frightened--scared that their belief in government, in larger public purposes, could be twisted into public perversity by the Republicans--to even attempt fizziness, to say nothing of brashitude. This lack of confidence has shriveled the Democrats. They run for office in shackles of their own making...
...Embraer more than 1,800 (almost 10%), as many existing orders have been postponed or converted into purchase options. Revenue is down significantly for both companies, and it was an ominous sign when a major competitor, Germany's Fairchild Dornier, filed for bankruptcy in April 2002. Embraer's usually brash CEO, Maurício Botelho, 59, last month observed in nervous executive speak, "The aerospace market right now is very sensitive to change." Investors agree. Embraer stock has fallen from the high $30s before the 9/11 attacks to about $15, despite a boost from the U.S. Airways deal. Shares...