Word: clearness
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...years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked the sports world by revealing in a 2007 column that after "extensive therapy," he was preparing to begin a new life as Christine Daniels. For reasons that aren't clear, it didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine Daniels for only a few months before reverting to his original byline. His death is being investigated as a suicide. Penner's editor described him as "capable of reporting on any number of topics with great wit and style"--a compliment...
...year is an eternity in politics, and Meg Whitman is prepared to spend what it takes. "We are running this campaign to win," she says. Californians have a history of taking chances at the polls, electing celebrity governors without any government experience. While it's clear that, under the right circumstances, such candidates can win, they can have a harder time governing. As Whitman may soon learn, even if aphorisms can pave the way to Sacramento, it will take more than platitudes to succeed there...
...matter how messed up Mary Karr's childhood seemed in The Liars' Club or how tumultuous her adolescence in the follow-up, Cherry, those two best sellers stood as proof that this howlingly funny writer had not only survived but also stayed sufficiently clear-eyed to tell her tales. We loved Karr, but we didn't have to worry about her in adulthood. Or so we thought...
While the university envisioned a warm reception, it must be recorded that the students took a clear stance against impunity for war crimes. During the question-and-answer session, the vast majority of questions and comments leveled at Oren were critical of his actions and statements on the Gaza invasion and the Goldstone report...
...recent months, declared in an editorial that there is no space to justify any act of violence: "First because it is so grave in itself, and also because it could lead to a tragic season that we have already experienced in the worst years of our life," a clear reference to the ideological terrorism that left hundreds dead in Italy in the 1970s and '80s. There was also widespread condemnation of the tactics of opposition politicians Rosy Bindi and Antonio Di Pietro, who have suggested that Berlusconi's scorched-earth approach to politics helped create a climate ripe for violence...