Word: ironical
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...doesn't have the résumé to rule the Giants with such an iron fist. While he has shown a flair for late-game heroics, he is not yet Joe Montana. He has struggled with his accuracy, throwing four interceptions in a loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Plus, his personality is just not Peyton's. Eli attributes his reticence at least partly to birth order. "Around dinner, I was just kind of watching and letting them do the talking," says Eli of his older brothers. "Don't speak until spoken...
...changeover will preserve the existing waffle makers in each of the dining halls, according to HUDS Spokeswoman Jami M. Snyder. But workers will spend the week upgrading the iron plates in which the waffles are formed...
...maverick Endoh aims to try something new for each project. In the case of Natural Strips II, a glass house completed this year, Endoh had a company that usually makes ducts for industrial plants twist a large iron plate and used the result as a column in the center of the house. The column works not only as a beautiful objet d'art but also as blinds for the bathroom and for the dressing room of the boutique on the ground floor...
...herself through Harvard, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, was officially declared the winner last week of a presidential runoff in her native Liberia. She spoke to Claire Soares about her plans to heal the war-torn country--where the rate of unemployment is 80%--and how she earned the epithet Iron Lady...
WHAT ARE YOUR WEAKNESSES? I've been disappointed many times in the trust that I've put in people. And I can sometimes be a bit harsh; I guess that's where my Iron Lady nickname comes from. I don't suffer fools gladly, and I can be rough around the edges in my handling of people who I feel have not met the requirements of a task...