Word: idealizations
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...Ramadan has not arrived at the ideal moment.' JOSE MOURINHO, manager of Italian soccer club Inter Milan, lamenting midfielder Sulley Muntari's "low energy levels" while he fasts in observance of the Muslim religious holiday...
...However, there is a bigger issue at stake here. To think of public speaking as something that can be practiced in an ideal section mischaracterizes it as a pure skill instead of an art form. There’s a big difference between an adequate orator and an inspiring one, and the difference does not lie in avoiding obvious faux pas, like not breaking into a terrible sweat or remembering the rules of grammar. Undergraduates could probably figure out the mechanics of public speaking without lessons. But when it comes to crafting a persuasive message and delivering...
...their larger triumphs beyond a few isolated blueprints and photos. Still, the Greene brothers’ attention to detail offers a credit to the more mundane face of American art and character; the pragmatism of design demonstrates not just the personality of Charles and Henry Greene, but an American ideal throughout. —Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached at blipton@fas.harvard.edu...
...France as approving that process and outcome," says Marc Ona Essangui, a Libreville-based environmental activist and opponent of the Bongo regime. "France claims it didn't have a candidate in this election. France has always claimed it didn't have a candidate in Gabonese elections. And yet the ideal candidate for France has once again come...
...point, members of the family actually debated whether to inter the deceased King of Pop in his Neverland estate. Indeed, his brother Jermaine told Larry King that Neverland would have been ideal. "I'm just concerned about security and being secure in a peaceful setting," he said. But Neverland was not popular with all the Jackson family members. There were too many negative associations with Michael's once beloved home: police raided the place in 2005 looking for evidence to be presented in his molestation trial. "That destroyed the magic for him, it really did," his nephew Taj Jackson tells...