Word: gracefulness
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...martini. Desmond's wish came true on this 1975 cool-jazz masterpiece, finally available on CD after two decades in limbo. Backed up by Canadian super-guitarist Ed Bickert, Desmond, who died in 1977, spins out long, pungent melodic lines that float through the air with luminous grace. Best of all is a slyly witty version of Things Ain't What They Used to Be that would have made Duke Ellington grin...
This is not to say that fairness is not a priority of the election, but that tedious rules make for an election that unnecessarily stifles candidates' voices. Instead of a mandatory point-deduction, the council could give a small grace period for easily rectifiable violations such as posting errors. Nor does this preclude the option of penalizing candidates for repeated postering infractions...
...there are two things you find in the middle of the road: "a moderate and a dead skunk. And I don't want to be either one of those." To his conservative allies, he is St. John the Divine; to opponents, all the talk of his integrity and personal grace masks a record from deep right field. But Ashcroft is also more complicated than the cartoons suggest. If he is so polarizing, how was he elected five times in a swing state? Is he the libertarian who fought alongside liberals to keep the government from prying into encrypted computer files...
...There were brief nods to the manner of his election, first to Al Gore for a contest "conducted in spirit and ended in grace," then to those who saw not a president up there Saturday but an impostor. "Many doubt the promise - even the justice - of our own country," Bush said, before promising to prove them wrong...
...into the theological issue of whether grace can be achieved through faith alone, but let's say, for the sake of argument, that you can achieve grace through the good work you do here on earth. Does it really matter, then, if Nelson Mandela cheats on his taxes? (He doesn't, by the way.) Does it matter that Mother Teresa was nasty to her kid brother? (I'm making that one up, too.) The idea here is that if you perform great and lasting public service, perhaps it doesn't really matter what the heck you're like in private...