Word: ironical
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...wife of four months, Professor of English Elisa New, will take a leave from the English Department to join him on his year outside the Ivory Tower. Summers said he intends to return to Harvard academia at the end of his sabbatical, but yesterday, he hesitated to offer an iron-clad commitment. “Never rule anything out,” he said. ON THE SIDELINES Formerly a lightning rod for controversy, Summers now finds himself on the outside of another tempest: some critics have blasted a paper co-authored by Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean Stephen...
...reason given to me for my prolonged stay in Winter Haven was to “iron out” some flaws in my delivery...
...England in the City financial district and make for the top deck to enjoy a bird's eye view of St. Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. Moving down Whitehall, after passing the two Queen's Household Cavalry sentries outside Horse Guards Parade, the bus approaches the iron gates that guard the entrance to 10 Downing Street - you might catch a glimpse of the Prime Minister addressing the press pack outside his famous front door. Another bonus: a ride on Chelsea's trendy King's Road before reaching the last stop in Fulham. Cost: $2.60. Journey time: about...
...throw China in with Germany and Japan, two countries that are now as aggressive as pussycats? Because all three exemplify the oldest and meanest problem of world politics: how to deal with rising powers. History has written an iron law about such powers' trajectories: First, they become rich, then rowdy. China is but the latest instance. As states consolidate politically and then take off economically, they begin to claim a "place in the sun," as the future German Reich Chancellor Bernhard von B?low famously proclaimed...
...fragmented, feudal power into a technocratic and imperial state. In Germany, Bismarck fused 25 kingdoms and duchies into the Second Reich. In the U.S., the Civil War ended with the Union restored. Step two was rampant economic growth, with all three overtaking the established powers in the production of iron, steel and energy?those industries that would soon yield guns, bombs and ships. Step three: expansion and war. The Japanese took on Russia, China and, in 1941, the United States. The Germans made two bids for hegemony in World Wars I and II. Though a democracy, the U.S. itself could...