Word: feistier
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Dueling Political Castes The current brawl is more than a personal feud. It pits the older, cosseted caste of statesmen and dignitaries against a younger, feistier generation more driven by election victories and policy results than diplomas and refinement. The split is perfectly personified in Sarkozy and Villepin. Born and raised abroad to a diplomat father and a judicial official mother, Villepin attended the élite schools that produce France's top civil servants. True to his family's aristocratic roots, the suave, permatanned Villepin is famous for writing poetry and studies of Napoleon. Despite winning praise as Foreign Affairs...
Phase 2 has begun. Six weeks after millions took to the streets to protest Iran's presidential election, their uprising has morphed into a feistier, more imaginative and potentially enduring campaign...
...good, he's not yet an artist." The corrida (tournament) highlighted Savalli's weaknesses as well as his strengths. He displayed the showmanship for which he is known - passes on his knees, cape tosses over the shoulder - and killed his first bull with aplomb. But his second opponent proved feistier, and Savalli partially missed his target, leaving a sword dangling from the bull's shoulder. This error cost him any chance of winning a trophy. "The Madrid bullring is the toughest in the world," Savalli said afterward. "One mistake and you get nothing." Still, the crowd gave him a standing...
...York's feistier Democrats might be tempted to nominate Hillary Clinton again, now that she's got an opponent. The First Lady had a restraining order on New York Democrats at the state convention in Albany two weeks ago, because she didn't know who her opponent was going to be, and her likeliest one, Rudy Giuliani, had cancer and the marital blues. Tuesday night in Buffalo, Rick Lazio and the Republicans knew exactly who they were up against - the entire nation has known that for some time - and they didn't pull many punches. "When it comes to representing...