Word: hand
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...being an author? Going out and meeting people? I actually do like it. I think I'm at the point where I probably don't have to tour. My books, I imagine, would sell okay even if I weren't out there hawking them. But on the other hand, that's the part that you don't get from a list of sales figures on a page. When you go on tour, you get to meet the people who are actually reading your books. You get to hear their stories about how [your] books affected them, and I just love...
...years—and trillions of dollars in defense spending—to “win” the Cold War—a victory that was accompanied by the wholesale economic collapse of the entire region. And the Russian leadership is highly aware of the stakes at hand. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of initiating “a new round of arms race,” and Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has warned that Russia is “not afraid of… a Cold War.” Hopefully Medvedev?...
...developing America’s foreign policy over the last few months, the Obama administration has extended its hand to a number of different countries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already made two trips, the first to Asia and the second to Europe, to assure nations of continued alliance with the United States. This pursuit of closer global ties is promising and will start the crucial process of mending the rifts created by the previous administration. Lacking conspicuously in America’s foreign-policy plans, however, is its own neighbor—Latin America...
...It’s a big transition between high school and college wrestling,” he says. “I have been really working to improve my hand-fighting skills, my bottom wrestling, and the mental aspect of the sport...
...Letting the cool ocean breeze wash over me as I looked out at the Caribbean from the bar's perch on an antique turret, caipirinha in hand and a well-heeled crowd of European and Latin American dancers twisting before me to the ever present salsa, I couldn't have agreed more: if there exists an antithesis of Afghanistan, Cartagena...