Word: grins
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...shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles boyishly: "Street boxing." Street boxing? "In college, I was a good boxer," he says, then leans forward, grinning. Well, actually, he confides, there was this girl, you see, and he bumped into her jealous boyfriend: "I got into a street fight with the guy." The grin widens. That's pure Chung: charming, disarmingly frank, with just a touch of self-deprecation...
...gazebo, toward us. They stick their hands out, see that it's still raining and decide to sit it out in some newfound friendly company. Perched cross-legged under the eave, with no hint of post-workout, post-coital exhaustion, they smile and shake hands. Fred's grin is broader: he's found a partner...
...that dead-calm tone they all seem to learn, "You're on the left side of the runway." The pilot slides the plane back to the right and touches down with only a minor bounce. "Lot more fun than the office," says the pilot, Gordon Bethune, with a grin. "But I'm not quitting...
...bureaucratic jujitsu, Rumsfeld sent his Post-it note to White--and held a press conference in which he not only praised the Army boss but brought him before the cameras to confess the error of his ways. Asked if White was now falling in line, Rumsfeld flashed the grin that has made Pentagon briefings more entertaining than Saturday Night Live. He said, "Do you think I would have invited him up to the podium and offered him an opportunity to oppose the President of the United States? Not a chance! Not a chance! My goodness, gracious!" Now Rumsfeld...
...backing, the debate about the fringes of the bell curve was no longer at the fringes of the University. This year everyone’s been talking curves and credentials as “C-minus” has happily faded to the background with a smug post-proselytizing grin. Indeed, on April 18, the University waved the bureaucratic equivalent of a giant red flag—an Educational Policy Committee (ECP) report detailing the problems of grade inflation and suggesting ways to ensure that, in the future, every Harvard college student will graduate with a slightly more mediocre...