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...bigger hurdle for Johnson is to prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron remarked, "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election this May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial...
...bigger hurdle for Johnson is to prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron recently remarked: "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election next May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks...
They're a droll, quiet outfit; they don't argue or slam their flinty, flattopped manager Clint Hurdle or talk cosmically about the streak, which has propelled them to a place no one expected when the season began at the end of a snowy Colorado winter. "We're young but good players and a good team, and an organization headed in the right direction. I expected to win from Day One," the whip-armed Tulowitzki said...
...designed by Norman Foster is scheduled to open in early 2008. Half a million volunteers are being trained to answer visitors' questions--about one for every foreign tourist expected to show up. Government officials say some 4 million Beijing residents have received English-language lessons. Famous for aloofness and droll irony, the city's people have been getting training in other areas too in the hope that they will curb their spitting, erratic driving, incessant littering and inability to form an orderly line...
...version by Rick Moody, who retells it from the man's point of view. "One day I woke to find that she was no longer attractive to me," he begins provocatively. Moody also sets up a finish worthy of Guy de Maupassant, the 19th century French master of droll dénouements...