Word: instinctiveness
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...Killer instinct.” More than “Carl Morris,” “Neil Rose” or “Dante Balestracci,” these two words were on everyone’s lips during last week’s preseason media day—hardly surprising for a Harvard football team that threw away two fourth-quarter leads down the stretch last year. Despite the records set by the Crimson offense, its combined 12 turnovers against Penn and Yale defined the season of a talented but inexperienced team...
...ancient seat of empire that is Mexico City, the man at the top of the pyramid traditionally lets the world come to him. Fox, 59, with his farmer's dislike of being cooped up and his salesman's instinct for staying mobile, exercises power on the move. If it's Tuesday, this must be Santiago, Chile; or Detroit; or the state of Chiapas; or downtown Mexico City. Constantly in the public eye, the former president of Coca-Cola Mexico has made himself Mexico's motivational speaker in chief...
...makes good drama when they face each other, which in the U.S. Open, owing to the draw, could happen only in the finals. Fifteenth-ranked Magdalena Maleeva, 26, who lost to one of her two older sisters at four separate majors, says, "To play tennis you need the killer instinct. It's hard to have the killer instinct with your sister...
Pinker is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at M.I.T. and author of Words and Rules, How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct...
...politician's instinct, combined with a businessman's sense of the market?in this case the voters to whom he had so successfully sold himself last Jan. 10?that would send him back out onto the hustings while the Constitutional Court deliberated. That populist approach had swept him to the biggest electoral majority in Thai parliamentary history. He would take his case directly to the people...