Word: guts
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Bush, who relies on gut instinct as much as résumé for personnel decisions, likes having the blunt, 5-ft. former Mob prosecutor at his side. A powerful sign of the respect Bush's loyalty to Townsend commands--or perhaps an indication of lingering Administration defensiveness over her appointment--is that heavyweights like Rice and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten praised Townsend in phone calls to TIME arranged by her office. The President, says Bolten, "likes her competence, her crispness and her ability to give him the straight scoop." Bush has entrusted her with, among other things...
...Bush Administration, 9/11 was as much an opportunity as a crisis. Bush had not been elected on the basis of his foreign policy expertise, but his gut instinct was to go beyond mere retaliation. The idea that the U.S. should respond to the attacks by fundamentally changing the status quo in the Middle East originated with the so-called neoconservatives whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had gathered around him at the Pentagon. If Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney saw 9/11 as an opportunity to settle accounts with Saddam, the neocons had loftier ambitions. They saw a chance to achieve...
...down to a dinner of crawfish etouffe and fried chicken at Mother's Next Door in downtown New Orleans to hear about the concerns of local and state officials. But out in the still-dark neighborhoods, homeowners had a far more pressing worry - a city deadline Tuesday to gut their houses. Those left open and in ruins face possible demolition. The deadline - part of the city's Good Neighbor Program - is meant to allay fears that some areas will end up with "jack-o-lantern" development, one or two rebuilt houses amid a block of devastation. But because Mayor...
...still gawp at the stunning craft on display. More than 90 of the most luxurious yachts in the world - some as long as 90 m - will be moored in a "floating exhibition" at Port Hercule. But be warned: speechless envy of how the other half lives is the typical gut response to seeing these waterborne palaces for the first time. Get used to it, or pray for a windfall at the casino...
...Gut: 1. A course in which no one does any work and everyone gets at least a B+. 2. The most popular courses at Harvard. (But, hey, where aren’t they...