Word: cunningness
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The argument is a cunning one, and when the dispute reached the court last month, the judge saw things the petitioners' way: the wolves would have to go. Not surprisingly, the reaction has been explosive. "The decision defies common sense," fumes Thomas France, senior counsel of the National Wildlife Federation...
Pierce Brosnan is substantially improved as 007. Although no one can possibly surpass the standards set by Sean Connery, Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies probably comes the closest. In this movie he is much more somber, more reserved and better composed. He makes it seem as though his predicaments represent...
And, second, it is pernicious nonsense to think that bringing out the deepest, rawest, most unspoken parts of our souls is somehow the road to racial healing. Anyone who has actually done real psychotherapy, in which people really pour out their souls (in my 20s, I practiced psychiatry), knows how...
For the moment, Chubais is holding on. Whether or not he is finally forced out of government, the message is already clear: carving up the country is a serious business. In the place of fully functioning political institutions, the competition is not of ideas but of personalities. People can be...
If one can look past all of the potential p.c. faux pas and can interpret Keillor to be wistful rather than patronizing, the novel's heart truly comes through. "The stream of insults that life directs at you cannot be vanquished by skill or cunning," John comments. "You can't...