Word: cunningness
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Thomas Wolfe once said that only the dead know Brooklyn. He never met photographer Thomas Roma, who doesn't just live in Brooklyn, he gets it. When Roma goes to a public pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water...
To the surprise of many, he is emerging as a bold and decisive leader, ready to put his stamp on domestic and foreign policies, though he cannot do so without the daily support of Fahd and other senior princes. The result is a change in presentation if not in policy...
"They've been taught to just accept life and develop patience and cunning," he said, recalling a group of Russians he once saw on a broken subway car and the remarkable lack of anger they showed. He concluded that once Russians realize power is in their hands, they will learn...
"I'm very pleased," says Gaddis. "One can always find portions with something this big and this extensive that one might have done differently. But I think it's fair and accurately reflects current cold-war scholarship." A recent finding from Soviet archives, for example, is that the Soviet leaders...
Having a con man at the helm is bad, but for some men having a doofus is even worse. What the guys around the radio wanted to know wasn't whether Bill Clinton had learned his lesson or put things right with God, but what his excuse was for his...