Word: brazenness
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...shattered Sierra Leone. And this time it has engulfed the very U.N. troops sent to monitor the peace. Soldiers from the unrepentant R.U.F. swooped down on U.N. personnel across the tiny country last week. By Friday, four Kenyan peacekeepers lay dead, more than 300 others were held hostage, and brazen rebels were reportedly "on the move" in 13 captured U.N. armored personnel carriers...
...Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco Frutos branded Villalonga a bad role model for Spain's youth and called for a ban on stock options. The Aznar government pleaded with Villalonga to renounce the profits on his options, but he refused. In the end, Aznar won handily; however...
...first time in eons, the Red Sox have actually been predicted to do well by people who live outside the Greater Boston area. Some brazen souls, including the editors of Sports Illustrated, have gone so far as to predict a World Series championship is in store for the Sox squad...
...many people didn't think that was very funny. The sense of grievance was too raw. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein is actually a friend of mine. (He's not the one who gave me the hat.) When I tell people this, they are sometimes amazed--not at my brazen name dropping or at the idea that I once traveled in such august circles but at the implication that Klein is a real human being with all the trimmings, such as friends...
...long as you're not afraid of using a little bit of elbow grease when you take your daily medications, UnitedHealthcare may be just the HMO for you. In an astoundingly brazen display of belt-tightening, the giant insurance company announced Wednesday they will require member doctors to write double-strength antidepressant prescriptions - with the understanding that patients will break the tablets in half to reach their required dosage. Someone who's taking 50 milligrams of the antidepressant Zoloft, for example, would take home a prescription for 100-milligram tablets and instructions to take only half a pill...