Word: guff
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...result is something more than the usual self-help guff. What Should I Do with My Life? is closer to the oral histories of Studs Terkel or This American Life than to Tony Robbins. What ties Bronson's subjects together is that most of them never got that Pauline postcard, that mystical memo telling them what they were here for. They had to figure it out the hard way. Many pulled courageous, tire-screeching, midcareer 180s, like the miserable marine biologist who threw away his Ph.D. to become a deliriously happy dentist, or the hard-charging vice president at First...
Blair aides think a lot of the guff they're taking from critics stems from the misguided view, similar to what obtained after Sept. 11, that Bush is about to start a war half-cocked. He doesn't want to, and he can't. Fall or winter is the earliest all the troops, weapons and intelligence assets could be organized for a land campaign, officials say - let alone a coherent replacement regime to which defectors could be attracted. But the carefully orchestrated images of transatlantic solidarity being planned for the summit belie a huge asymmetry in the two leaders' freedom...