Word: defiant
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...kept flashing through my head last week. The brighter one was filled with the sheer exuberance of a bunch of kids from Toms River, N.J., as they pursued their ultimately successful dream of winning the World Series in Little League Baseball. The darker one stemmed from Mark McGwire's defiant confirmation that he's been taking a supplement called androstenedione, which its manufacturers claim will boost testosterone levels. While it's perfectly legal in the U.S. and the major leagues for McGwire to take the supplements, it sends an absolutely wrong health message to kids everywhere. If he does beat...
...from wishing the current crop of East Asian leaders a speedy recovery from their current economic crises, engineered Indonesian president Suharto?s fall and would like very much to bring about his own. So it shouldn?t have come as too much of surprise when the defiant Dr. Mahathir threw the switch Tuesday on a plan that has the Western economic establishment covering its eyes in horror -- but also peeking through its fingers: impose strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir...
There's something different about the issue you're holding in your hands. After President Clinton's historic testimony and defiant confession speech on Monday, we decided to speed up our schedule so that the magazine would be out this Thursday rather than next Monday...
...President's speech was a disaster, a historic failure that will be ever noted and long remembered. It was, in fact, a reverse Checkers speech. The Checkers speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that saved a career. The Monica speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that will, I believe, ultimately undo...
UNITED NATIONS: For Muammar Ghaddafi, that was a poker face. The Libyan leader's rambling, repetitive and occasionally defiant interview on CNN Thursday afternoon -- "They are not pieces of fruit," Ghaddafi said more than once, referring to the suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing -- left observers first chuckling and then wondering: How sincere...