Word: grandness
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...Even so, Greece's looming political uncertainty has precipitated calls for a grand alliance between the country's perennial political foes. "Frustrated voters cultivate romantic notions," a senior pollster said on condition of anonymity because of the polling ban. On Sunday he said, "most voters will sober up before the ballot box and pick the best of the unfavourable choices before them." Provided, of course, they show...
...firsts in a season as Formula One's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. After motorsport's top competition got underway in March, Lewis Hamilton, the English team's rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers' championship; in the race for the constructors...
Federer wins fourth straight U.S. Open, 12th Grand Slam...
...What a comedown for a man who drew leadership inspiration from his grand-father, a staunch nationalist who bounced back from imprisonment as a war criminal to become Premier in the 1950s. The youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history, Abe came to power last September as the architect of a self-proclaimed "assertive diplomacy" in which a re-energized nation would claim its rightful place on the global stage. The 52-year-old vowed to repair relations with Asian neighbors still wounded by Japan's wartime aggression and aimed to transform the nation's military from a limited self...
Such cold-hearted prescriptions have shaped Machiavelli's reputation as the grand master of brutal pragmatism. But they reveal surprisingly little about the man himself - a statesman, poet, playwright and Florentine patriot who lived from 1469 to 1527. In his highly readable new biography, Machiavelli, Ross King paints a more complete picture of Florence's most misunderstood thinker and his tumultuous times. King's breezy narrative doesn't spare Machiavelli, depicting him as an intellectual who loved prostitutes as much as philosophy. But it does present the fresh and sympathetic hypothesis that Machiavelli may not, in fact, have been...