Word: cordiality
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...summons came down from Damascus last August, informing Rafiq Hariri, then the Prime Minister of Lebanon, that he was wanted for a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad. For years Hariri had strived to maintain cordial relations with Lebanon's more powerful neighbor, acquiescing to Syria's domination of Lebanese politics as the price of Syria's role in ending Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But by last summer Assad suspected that Hariri was behind an international campaign to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and so he decided to warn Hariri not to oppose Syrian plans to reassert...
...strategy by President Pervez Musharraf to keep Bhutto's party under a tight rein. They say the President has sent feelers to Bhutto that she may be able to return home-but only if she does not challenge him directly. Musharraf himself was enjoying a much more cordial homecoming on Saturday: he flew to the Indian capital New Delhi, where he was raised before migrating to Pakistan, to watch a cricket match between India and Pakistan...
After World War II the great names of prewar manufacture, including some that were tainted by cordial service to Hitler and Mussolini, came back with cars that were shorter, lower to the ground and faster. These include the two-seat 1950 Jaguar XK120, a mass-production car that was capable of going 130 m.p.h., faster than many prewar racers. But the ultimate examples were the Ferraris. With their enameled red surfaces, their voluptuous lines and their plain debt to jet- aircraft styling, they practically say "Lick me." In a show that's pure ice cream, you may be tempted...
...never speak publicly about policy: "I prefer to work back in the kitchen," he says. "There's no need to come out to the dining room." Still, Letta is not publicity-shy; he agreed to be photographed, and during breaks in the photo shoot, he displays his knack for cordial conversation without ever breaking his no-comment...
...ever get backlash from friends and family for personal things you divulge in your one-man shows? The hostility those shows created in my family will never go away. We need to go out in the woods with a therapist. At Christmas it's all cordial, and then after a few drinks it comes out: "Why did you say that about Grandma? She didn't deserve that...