Word: gentleman
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...voluble and candid. He spoke of his college days at Yale, where he says he "worked hard and had a lot of fun" but also encountered an East Coast intellectual "arrogance" that annoyed him. He said he was furious when a stolen copy of his Yale transcript, with its gentleman Cs, turned up in print last fall in what he deemed "a violation of my civil rights," but then decided not to push the school to find the culprit. Making a smooth segue into foreign policy, he offered a nuanced assessment of Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin as "showing...
...sorry to bother you....I just wanted to let you know that you inspired me to create a poem about what true beauty is. I entered it into a national poetry contest to share it with others to see what they thought. I received a phone call from the gentleman who ran the contest, and he was very moved by the poem. He said that the words came very close to revealing what God has created the emotion of love for. I hope that this letter doesn't bother you, I'm not going to show up on your doorstep...
...some kind of world government threatening U.S. sovereignty, which doesn?t reveal much understanding of international diplomacy," says Dowell. "But what may be more important is that Holbrooke is trying to draw Helms into the process of U.S. relations with the rest of the world." And being a Southern gentleman, Helms? repaid his hosts? hospitality by inviting all the Security Council ambassadors to Washington to address his Senate committee. Good thing Cuba?s not on the Security Council at the moment...