Word: jokingness
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Only one day after announcing his resignation, University President Lawrence H. Summers was already joking about his stormy tenure before a captivated Dunster House audience during a fireside chat. “I have had a shorter term than many other Harvard presidents, but as a consequence of that, I...
Hockey players from the NHL know a thing or two about pressure. But how do they stay cool when the reputation--even the identity--of their country rests on their shoulders? The solution, say Canadian hockey stars at the 20th Olympic Games, is to seek out the mundane. As the...
As the humvee leaves camp, Horve yells out to her, "Hey, Swenson! Keep an eye open for triggermen hiding along the road." She nods. In the gunner's hatch, she is armed with a 240 Bravo machine gun that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than...
And yet despite such displays of mettle, acceptance from some of the guys is grudging. Says a military-police sergeant in Baghdad: "I've got nothing against them. But they're slower and weaker"--and therefore would be a liability in hand-to-hand combat. Some commanders grumble about the...
From his own experience, Putin should have known better: Back in 2000, the Russian president had told a G-8 summit in Japan that he had convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to abandon his missile program. Sounded good, until Kim explained he was joking. This time, Putin seems...