Word: chutzpah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cramer, once a Pulitzer-Prizewinning foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, had the chutzpah to attempt the ultimate look-Ma-no- hands high-wire act as he searched for a fresh vantage point from which to look down on presidential politics. Though there are backstage meetings and tense strategic debates, What It Takes is not Theodore White's Making of the President series revisited. For one thing, Cramer views the overpaid and overpraised parade of pollsters and media advisers as a comic chorus to be irreverently dismissed as "wise guys," "Big Guys," "killers" and (his sobriquet for the Bush team...
...some kind of religion, even if it's purely negative (atheism) or latent. Mine was pretty latent. Sure, I believed in God, but it was just like biting my nails: a childhood habit I never really tried to break. As far as I was concerned, all I needed was chutzpah and high SAT scores for my life to be perfectly under control. But that was before I faced the Great Harvard Humbling Experience...
Perennial faces in the news includes outspoken professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah who recently made headlines for leading Mike Tyson's appeal. Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...Someone "has to sit them down," said the slam-dunking Cuomo, who quickly feigned lack of heft for the mediator's job. "I don't have the stature or the role," said Cuomo, who governs a state with the largest number of people outside Israel who understand the word chutzpah. "I'm just one of 50 Governors. I'm one of many, many Democrats . . . I don't have any special credentials." Except as a spoilsport, that...
...million dollar fundraising campaign. The student activists who had been troubling him for years were coming off a year of setbacks, and several of their most vocal leaders were due to graduate in June . Even Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz was off promoting his bestseling book, Chutzpah and remained relatively quiet...