Word: jealous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...White House wanted Frist as majority leader because it thinks it can control him better than it did Lott. But any sign of manipulation could backfire. "The Senate is very jealous of its independence," explains a G.O.P. Senator. "They don't want the White House kicking them around." Frist faces a balky group of G.O.P. committee chairmen. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, a Lott ally who chairs the Appropriations Committee, may move slower on spending bills and lard them with more pork than Frist or Bush wants. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, who has long lusted after the majority leader...
...experiments with using The Sims to "re-create real-life interpersonal relationships." Sauro has created an entire Sims world full of her actual friends and family. "The first year I had the game, we were all having affairs with one another's spouses," she says. "When the Sims get jealous, they slap each other. There was a lot of slapping...
...singing like a canary, claiming that Diana smuggled lovers into her home while dressed in little more than a fur coat. Sparing the royal family, Burrell is instead indicting Diana's blood relations: he claims that Diana and her mother had stopped speaking and that one sister was a jealous shrew. "The Spencers found Diana unacceptable in life. But after her death, they found her very acceptable, at $16.50 a ticket," he said, referring to the cost of visiting her grave at the family's ancestral house. Et tu, Burrell...
...Gerald Early, a professor of African and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, says he feels that both types of public intellectuals serve a very important purpose. “I think a lot of the time in the university, some of my colleagues may get jealous of someone who is a public intellectual,” Early says, noting that general-audience books sell many more copies than those targeted only to scholars. If you’re one of those professors writing only to colleagues, “you’re lucky...
...white man, a gaijin, and as wartime approaches, he needs to decide where his real loyalties lie. Both sides, West and East, suspect Harry of spying. His two girlfriends?Michiko, an enigmatic Japanese gamine, and Alice, the jaded wife of a British diplomat?are getting jealous of each other. Harry's archenemy, a psychotic, bisexual samurai, is stalking him with a sword. As the clock ticks down to zero, the action speeds up, blurring into a cherry-blossom-scented, sake-drenched fever dream...