Word: compliment
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...This is just a quick shout-out to compliment you on that subtle and refreshing report. I am an anthropologist living in Ramallah, and I often travel to Gaza. It is truly refreshing to read an article that goes beyond the usual generalizations and simplifications about Gaza and Hamas. Well done, and I hope to read more! Anne de Jong, Ramallah, West Bank
...American Idol, calling a performance "bad karaoke" is the worst insult the judges can hurl. It is also the greatest compliment they can bestow. Idol viewers, after all, have made the caterwauling audition episodes the highest-rated, except for the finale. In their eyes, karaoke is the Mae West of entertainment: when it's bad, it's better...
...This is just a quick shout-out to compliment you on that subtle and refreshing report. I am an anthropologist living in Ramallah, and I often travel to Gaza. It is truly refreshing to read an article that goes beyond the usual generalizations and simplifications about Gaza and Hamas. Well done, and I hope to read more! Anne de Jong, RAMALLAH, WEST BANK...
...point in my life, I could fluently speak Chinese. Really—I have many fond memories of this elusive ability. As a kid visiting Taiwan, for example, taxi drivers would often compliment the fluency I demonstrated with Mandarin phrases such as, “I’m eight,” “I’m from the United States,” and “Are we there...
...products of the world's largest saltwater producers, Australia's Paspaley and Tahiti's Robert Wang. Hong Kong is now the world's fourth largest exporter of fine jewelry behind Italy, the U.S. and India, totaling nearly $4 billion in 2005. "Hong Kong has made itself into the perfect compliment to China's dominance in pearl production," says Sonny Hung, spokesman for the jeweler Man Sang...