Word: cheerfulness
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, were the picture of transatlantic harmony as Rice visited Straw's constituency in Blackburn, England, last week. Their good cheer reflected the continuing official closeness of their two countries--the tightest of coalition partners three years into the war in Iraq despite the opposition of much of the rest of the world and the fact that, as Rice conceded last week, "we've made tactical errors, thousands of them," in Iraq. (She later said she meant it "figuratively.") But not everyone in the British government is smiling. A dispute...
...their lives has risen fourfold in the past six months, consumer confidence is at its highest in four years, and the business climate index - a measure of how optimistic businesses are about the future - last week reached its highest level since German reunification. The reason for all this good cheer? Columnists call it the Merkel Factor. It was even given solid form on floats at the annual Carnival parade in Cologne. Last year, a vast, papier-mâché Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover...
Like legions of baby boomers who have gone about as far as they can in their profession--or will soon reach that uncomfortable turning point--Gossage is after something simple: validation of a career, and life, well spent. He wants one last cheer, and his high-profile quest throws valuable light on some common nagging questions. Are up-and-comers out to steal our thunder? When we're not recognized for our achievements, does it pay to get angry? Am I living in the past when I still have much to offer and should be looking ahead? When...
...trickiest feat is balancing two distinct storylines: a cop movie (the police are the good guys and the drama is behind the barricades) and a heist movie (the robbers are the good guys and the fun is in seeing them pull off their convoluted plot). It is hard to cheer for both sides at once, but the movie makes it possible (no telling who wins in the end, though) by directing all our antipathy towards another, separate villain (who happens to have Nazi ties...
...with bubble gum or if there was a pun that we were all missing,” wrote Kirkland resident Jayne F. Wolfson ’08 in an e-mail. “When it came down to the final vote, all of the guys cheered for the bubblegum shirt. We then realized that it must be some sort of sexual joke.” Rebutting the suggestion that friends of designer John K. Minervini ’07 had a hand in his win, Minervini deadpanned, “I was in China all last year...