Word: joyful
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...know the U.S. military. My education was turbocharged by General David Petraeus, who invited me to spend some time learning counterinsurgency at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while he was leading the team that wrote the new doctrine. The intellectual rigor of Petraeus' team, their willingness - no, their joy - when it came to chewing over even the most unlikely questions were flat-out exciting. It was certainly at odds with the hidebound image of the military I'd grown up with. I became an auxiliary member of the counterinsurgency cult - in theory. When it came time to apply it in Iraq...
Still, Shee believes the benefits of dancing with HBC are well worth the physical and academic sacrifices. “It’s been hard on my body, but it really makes me appreciate the joy that comes with every dance step–it makes all those late nights more bearable,” Shee says...
...favored. Netanyahu was offering a partial freeze, not including new settlements in East Jerusalem, the desired capital of a future Palestinian state. This was a nonstarter for the Palestinians, but it had the holographic glow of a step forward. It was an "unprecedented" offer, Netanyahu trumpeted, with the joy of a chess master springing a trap.(See pictures from 60 years of Israel...
Such double-characters require skilled acting, and watching one identity leak out through another is a particular joy of this production. As both the resolute Charlotte Corday and the sleepy, hesitating inmate who plays her, Jakim manages her identity especially well. She forgets her lines with ease. The chorus also wavers deftly between unhappy inmates and unhappy poor, and their frequent off-tone songs keep the show from dragging...
Authors are on both sides of the barricades. Opponents of the settlement include silver-maned folk singer Arlo Guthrie and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, author of the so-called torture memos for President George W. Bush. The settlement counts The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan and noir crime novelist Elmore Leonard among its supporters. The deal has many other supporters as well, from disability rights groups to Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the National Grange...