Word: cowboy
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...most obvious bedrock of success is entrepreneurial spirit. The U.S. has the most risk-taking, most laissez-faire, least regulated economy in the advanced Western world. America is heartily disdained by its coddled and controlled European cousins for its cowboy capitalism. But it is precisely America's tolerance for creative destruction--industries failing, others rising, workers changing jobs and cities and skills with an alacrity and insouciance that Europeans find astonishing--that keeps its economy churning and advancing...
...Host Jon Stewart: Really, will there be any original gay cowboy jokes left by March...
...expect cowboy boots and Bible Belt philosophies to suddenly dominate Ottawa's gray corridors. The Conservative win heralds the arrival on the national stage of sophisticated, western-incubated thinking on trade, energy and international affairs, expertise that until now has been largely invisible to eastern Canadians. Albertans believe "it's better to experiment than to plan your way to perfection," says Dinning, who is the front runner in the race to succeed Premier Ralph Klein. "The new Conservative government attitude is rooted in an Alberta attitude that if you need to get something done, you don't Royal Commission...
Theorizers, both professional and amateur, think the western helps people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past ... In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there...
...night. From cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain?s four awards to Philip Seymour Hoffman?s win for biopic Capote to Felicity Huffman?s trophy for Transamerica, films with gay and transgender characters swept the show. The King Kong/Naomi Watts inter-species love affair, however, still proved too edgy, even for those live-and-let-live Hollywood Foreign Press voters...