Word: gracefulness
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...seems that nothing is more powerful than the buying reflex of a grandparent. Jan Burton, 52, has two grandchildren, Grace, 2, and James, 6 weeks. "My heart just glows when I see them wearing something so cute," says Burton. Her last impulse buy for her granddaughter was a $50 bathing suit patterned like a strawberry, with fake leaves sprouting from the shoulders. No doubt Grace will outgrow it before next summer, but you don't want to get in the way of a grandparent intent on grabbing. --With reporting by Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta and Esther Chapman/Omaha
...Craig Thompson's "Blankets" has walked us along the path from Craig's childhood to maturity with extraordinary grace and sensitivity. Part teen romance novel, part coming-of-age novel, part faith-in-crisis novel and all comix, "Blankets" is a great American novel...
...apocalyptically radiant December morning, the skyscrapers of Tokyo's high-rise Shinjuku district crumble to the ground in perfect unison. It's a searing spectacle, a ballet of terrorism executed with characteristic Japanese grace and precision. Like 9/11, the attack is an act of blind, vengeful rage that claims thousands of innocent lives. But the perpetrators aren't foreign religious extremists?they're disaffected local teens delivering the knockout scene in this year's most anticipated Japanese movie. Battle Royale II opens in Japan this month amid a deafening buzz of hype and expectation, and with one question looming over...
...Grace kids, Mallory, Jared and Simon, are the latest tyro trio to find themselves entangled in creepy adventures. Especially after a busted marriage forces them to move from the city into a ramshackle Victorian manse. Mallory's hair gets mysteriously knotted to the headboard of her bed. Simon's tadpoles are frozen into an ice-cube tray. Blame seems to rest on Jared, until he uncovers a strange book, a field guide to faeries that identifies the culprits. Turns out faeries are not all Tinkerbell types; the genus encompasses goblins, hobgoblins, brownies, trolls, ogres, dwarfs and sprites, some of them...
...required and deliver bad news when it’s required. And if you are uncomfortable doing any one of those three things, you can’t be effective, frankly, as a leader. But I think all three of those can be done with empathy, with compassion, with grace and without [being] in your face. And I think successful women leaders walk that line and sort of have the agression there under the surface because it’s very necessary to do those things...