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...unintentional. Clegg is trying to cut through the tangle of well-meaning woolliness shrouding a party that traditionally attracts more than its share of affluent supporters in sandals and bicycle clips. In an hour-long town-hall meeting in a key Lib Dem target constituency, he uses the word fair 25 times. "If I hear him say again that a child growing up in one part of [the northern English city] Sheffield has got much better life chances than a child growing up in another part of Sheffield I think I might scream," says Jo Swinson...
...been a myth and an icon," the biographer said. "Perhaps now we will look at him as a human being in his all complexity." And some commentators outside Poland have praised Domoslawski's work for its honest portrayal of the man. "I find that the author tries to be fair, allowing many different voices to speak," British historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote in the Guardian newspaper. "He captures the Ryszard I knew, starting with a brilliant evocation of his warm, nut-brown, disarming smile ... But this book is the protracted cry of a worried and even a disappointed disciple...
...numbers as the beginning of a cyclical recovery. "I think the picture is overwhelmingly one of a retail recovery," he says. While he acknowledges that the sales increase is off weak 2009 numbers, he's nevertheless optimistic. "A broad retail recovery is in play," he contends. "There is a fair amount of pent-up demand ... and we're only seeing the beginning of that...
...more confusing when trying to designate an athlete as the “greatest Olympians.” In 2008, Michael Phelps wowed the world by capturing eight gold medals in the swimming events he competed in, quickly garnering him that title. But from another perspective, this is hardly fair based on the Olympic structure. There is little doubt that Phelps is the greatest swimmer of our time, but swimming allows for many more medal opportunities than other sports. How can it be fair to reason that Phelps is greater than an Olympic volleyball player, who has only one medal...
...still waiting for a parody of the Pond’s White Beauty episode, showing Saif Ali Khan pining over a discolored Priyanka Chopra, victim of her creams. With tactics like these, perhaps one day society can learn Michael Scott’s truth: “fair and kind” makes more sense than “fair and lovely...