Word: instinctiveness
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When Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer last winter, her immediate instinct--after recovering from the initial shock, of course--was to keep her condition a secret...
...Gore has a powerful instinct for the endgame, as he has shown in many budget battles, in his handling Bosnia and above all at the end of his losing presidential bid in 1988. It had been a brutal race, but he found a way to end it gracefully. More important than winning, Gore said, was "helping my party, serving my country, knowing when to keep fighting and knowing when I've been licked." Some people close to Gore saw in the results last week a popular mandate for his ideas; these were the people counseling Gore to fight...
...Dwight Yoakam reaffirms his status as a country outsider in his latest album Tomorrow's Sounds Today. Comprising diverse elements founded on honky-tonk tradition and on Yoakam's musical instinct, Tomorrow's Sounds Today is upbeat and bristling with the warm and honey-sweet vocals of the singer-songwriter. However, although Tomorrow's Sounds Today reflects Yoakam's emotionally charged This Time to a certain degree, it lacks the exuberance and gleeful rockability that launched that 1993 Grammy-winning album...
...wasn't the side I was used to, and my time there taught me a lot about both politics and journalism. I had just assumed, for example, that I would be good at spinning journalists - after all, I was one of them. But I was a bust. My instinct was to give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record...
...right that they hear in Gore's accounts for the trouble he's in now. Call "Car Talk" and discuss the problem with Click and Clack. Someone told me yesterday that Gore acts like a kid who was home-schooled, and suffers in consequence from some lack of social instinct, from some inadequate peer-assisted triangulation of his personality...