Word: hellos
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...morning in the Yard, his slowness to answer foreshadows the inevitable response. The students are members of the Fly, he says.TALK THE (GIRL) TALKSchwartz cannot walk into Lamont Library or into a dining hall without striking up a conversation, high-fiving someone, or at the very least saying hello to two or three people—all of which is interspersed with seemingly endless Blackberry correspondence. Whether he is going door-to-door campaigning or just going through his daily interactions, he is quick to call shared acquaintances “ballers,” especially if they have been...
...sketch "Timmy Williams Coffee Time" Eric Idle played Frost as a gladhander preening for TV crews while ignoring the plaints of a recently widowed friend. Pythonite John Cleese, on the radio show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again mocked Frost's standard introduction by braying, "'Hello, good evening and welcome." In Frost/Nixon two people greet him with that phrase. Frost murmurs, "Actually I don't say that...
...stopped her to praise her accomplishments so far. Rhee listened with a small smile while systematically cracking each of her knuckles with the thumb of the same hand. Then she got back into her SUV and began furiously e-mailing. When she calls her staff, she does not say hello; she just starts talking. She answered 95,000 e-mails last year, according to her office...
...many Japanese-language students had their druthers, they'd probably want a pair of cool cats to helm their classes. In May, Japan designated Hello Kitty as a tourism ambassador, two months after Doraemon, the aqua-hued robot feline, was named the nation's first cartoon envoy. The designation of these two cat representatives symbolizes just how much Japan's overseas reputation is tied to pop culture. That's a connection that surely pleases Japan's new Prime Minister Taro Aso. The 68-year-old premier, who is a self-confessed manga addict, has called for Japan to pursue what...
...employees chafed under the strictures of Japanese management. In the same way, unless Japan relaxes its rigid immigration policies, cultivating foreign Japanophiles will be a waste of time. Indeed, in moving beyond Japan's insular past, Prime Minister Aso might do well to take inspiration from a cuddly cat. Hello Kitty, it turns out, may not be ethnically Japanese. Her surname is not Suzuki or Sato but White. Her parents are named George and Mary. Yet the mouthless feline has prospered as one of Japan's most successful exports, a fitting symbol of an open Japan. Arigato Kitty, hello world...