Word: flattering
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...instead of stories that reflect how 9/11 changed us, we have stories that help us flatter ourselves into believing that it did. The Flight 93 movies and World Trade Center, not to take anything away from them, cherry-picked the few triumphant stories of 9/11. They let us see it as a day when Americans tapped their strength, transformed and sacrificed--whether you and I, munching our Raisinets in the audience...
...vendetta against Bill Clinton,'' one of his friends says Clinton saw Jackson as a bumpkin and treated him badly. Whether the slights were real or imagined, Jackson, he says, never forgot. When the two men returned home, Clinton began his rise to the top of Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding; in 1986, for example, he filed a $2 million suit on behalf of a woman who said she had purchased a ''maggoty'' Hershey's Kiss. Jackson wrote his brief in rhyme, releasing to the press such lines...
...while wearing a military coat (i.e. imposing and about to be sent to a gulag); however, in the current incarnation, the effect is completely different. The military coats of today are cut snugly and sexily and the detailing has become more couture than regimental. These coats can flatter most figures and are relatively practical for New England. This is good news for those of us who participated in the cocktail jacket trend of last fall and then permanently lost circulation to their extremities and for those of us marching against New Jersey just...
...team - smooth Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...
...underdevelopment of their societies. But Friedman is a born optimist. When he asks the young Indians doing jobs outsourced from the U.S. whether they are worried about terrorism or war with Pakistan, they tell him they're too busy working. To Friedman, that's a sign that a flatter planet will be a better one. "To the extent that this process happens," he writes, "it will absolutely make the world safer for American kids." It's tough not to hope he's right. By Romesh Ratnesar