Word: gentlemanly
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This was the year Armstrong got cocky, the year he became the gentleman gunslinger. Back in the early '90s, he was a straight-talking, middling Texan toughing it out in a European sport. Then he got cancer, which changed his life and his body. The treatment oddly reshaped his muscles for climbing, the most crucial part of the Tour de France. He taught himself how to cycle, not just ride a bike. That led to last July, when he became a two-time Tour de France champion, and the kind of comeback story of which HBO movie producers dream...
...Monti is a gentleman--reserved, charming--but very formal. I don't know his inner soul. I do know his staff was hard over on this opinion [rejecting the merger...
...past two weeks, some of the heat has gone out of U.S.-European disagreement on those issues, and for that, you can thank the gentleman from Vermont, James Jeffords. When he handed control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats, he changed the strategic equation. As one observer of Rumsfeld's trip to Brussels noted, it may now be no easier to convince the Senate than the Europeans of the virtue of missile defense. And it took extensive lobbying by the Clinton Administration to get the Senate (then under Republican control) to welcome Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into...
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...Mike Dewar, a former army officer who heads the London P.R. agency MDA, calls the Masonic campaign "one of the most challenging accounts I've taken on." A challenge indeed. Even today, some 400 years after it originated probably as an English gentleman's club that derived its name, rituals and symbols from the stonemason's craft the mere mention of Freemasonry can inspire fear and suspicion...