Word: downrightness
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...have an announcement to make. I realize that it will probably make me very unpopular, especially at this particular juncture, what with "Pearl Harbor" out in theaters this weekend and everything. Heck, this little confession might even make me seem downright un-American. But I just can?t stay silent any longer...
...time when public engagement in many schools is downright dismal, Hand has captured the attention--and the donations--of its neighbors by turning into an old-fashioned community center. Hand keeps the hours of a convenience store: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., open all but five weekdays a year. Senior citizens tutor teenagers, and preschoolers take computer classes here. Professors from the nearby University of South Carolina stop by to lecture students. The city council often meets in the school gymnasium. "Everybody comes here. It makes you think like, O.K., I can get into this too," says eighth-grader Frankie...
...skeptics among you took an especially dim if not downright hostile view of our reporting on Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. "A healthy percentage of your readers probably couldn't care less what Jesus saw or did," griped a Kansan. "Report on Jerusalem today, and leave the theology to someone else." "How nice to have news of the upcoming holiday!" a Wisconsin reader said sarcastically. "If Jesus is on the cover, and it's snowing outside, it must be Christmas. If it's raining, it must be Easter." And a man from Ohio wrote, "Jesus may sell magazines...
That the most notable characteristic of Japan's new Prime Minister is his haircut might not sound like a ringing endorsement. But in a country of copycat Brylcreemed coiffures, the Koizumi Perm is downright revolutionary: ample gray locks swirling high above his head and cascading down the back of his neck, brushing over his shirt collar. The rakish look of the tall, angular 59-year-old enhances his image as an iconoclast, a romantic lead actor storming the stage of Japan's crusty political establishment. As Toshiaki Okazaki, a 59-year-old whale-meat vendor, said while Koizumi campaigned near...
...neighborhood of the brink, and Japan could still drag the rest of them down if the banks start to go under. But for now, with the U.S. apparently holding its own, Europe feeling confident and Japan in at least a stable coma, the view from the world stage is downright - comparatively, at least - sunny...