Word: cooler
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Saudis nonetheless regard Abdullah, an energetic man despite his considerable girth, as a dedicated, in-touch ruler. Each day he rises around noon, a common practice among Saudis, who often prefer to work in the cooler nights. Abdullah greets visiting dignitaries, emissaries and ordinary citizens until his 7 p.m. meal, naps until midnight and then puts in another day's work until dawn prayers. Though a devout Muslim, if he's a zealot about anything it's TV news: his office has a bank of 33 television sets so he can monitor all the available satellite channels at once...
...creations are 3-D animations but more human than Bart Simpson. They're sinister, perhaps, but not scary. They look like the kids who hang out in the 'hood, but cooler. They dress baggy, down and street-chic, accessorizing with tattoos, caps, goatees and stylish sneakers. They pursue action hobbies such as skateboarding, wakeboarding and taggin'. Most have human form, but some have heads shaped like aerosol-can nozzles. Created from sketches, sculptured in clay and then modeled from plastic parts, each Lau doll is a piece of urban art. "I get inspired from whatever is around me," Lau says...
...price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...
...male middle-schoolers in 1992, The Firm, along with maybe Jurassic Park or the latest Stephen King novel, was the entry point to the world of adult bestsellers, critically ignored books that were still so much cooler than To Kill a Mockingbird. The best way to understand The Firm is to compare it to the film version. I remember being disappointed with the movie. It may have been the first page-to-screen adaptation I’ve ever eagerly anticipated, and I concluded—perhaps inevitably—that it wasn’t as good...
...harder I searched for reasons, the more I floundered. By Thursday morning I had nearly decided to just relax and enjoy my newfound cachet. I sauntered into the office, feeling just a bit cooler, hipper, more in touch with those crazy kids. Then I picked up a newspaper...