Word: enthusiasm
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...move abroad, but soon dropped the idea. For his part, Sarkozy staged a boisterous election rally in London in January, a first for a French presidential candidate, and urged the crowd of about 2,500 expats to return. "We need your work, your intelligence, your imagination and your enthusiasm," Sarkozy said, adding, "Seeing France from the outside, you can better see its defects and its weaknesses - and they are all the more unbearable for you ... But all over the world, I want the French to be proud again of France...
...what he remembers their calling "architectural acrobatics," and they stressed that they wouldn't "create an unnecessarily large amount of first-aid calls." Their entreaty worked. Today Webster says there is no official prohibition against parkour. Other schools seem caught between safety concerns and not wanting to stifle student enthusiasm. Last year, when a University of Washington administrator went outside to tell Cecka to stop climbing on her office building, she was impressed by his passion for the obscure sport and encouraged him to apply for a $4,500 leadership scholarship, which he is using to create a nonprofit...
...knowledge for informed citizens in a democracy. My only caution: teach all of the Bible. We wouldn't sample bits and pieces of Macbeth, Jane Eyre, 1984 or Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe to the position espoused by the great Isaac Asimov: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived...
Since then, Britons have remained skeptical about the possibilities of expanded political integration, and have consistently showed little enthusiasm for the organization. In 1988, then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher congratulated the College of Europe on their courage to invite her to speak about the Union. In truthful representation of the British feeling, she herself said inviting her to speak about integration was like inviting “Genghis Khan to speak on the virtues of peaceful coexistence.” Even today, the EU is as popular in Britain as President George W. Bush is in America...
...over the amount of exuberance and affection displayed by their welcoming embassies as well as their newest affiliates in Annenberg. As leonine and simian mascots romped through the hall, upperclassmen hoisted the colors and insignia of the armigerous Houses on banners, mouthing improvised panegyrics to their residences with unbridled enthusiasm. The privileged freshmen placed in Eliot or Adams undoubtedly interspersed their justified excitement with sighs of relief, as those “Quadded” unfortunates concealed their profound disappointment with airy-fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness?...