Word: kinder
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...million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing. "I told [series creator] Mark [Burnett]...that I think a nice person could win this." The aggressive humility and kindness extended into the 10,000 hours of post-Survivor interviews as Tina, Keith and Colby insisted that "it wasn't about...
...What would also help to defuse the who-needs-whom debate would be a male movement - masculism? - in which all men of non-Taliban persuasion would strive to emulate that half of the race which is typically gentler, kinder, less overbearing. Non-firebreathing feminists would surely support such a campaign, even though nervous good ol' boys among men have already bent New Sensitive Man into a put-down...
...longer. Rather than succumbing to the "kinder, gentler" image painted by his admen - or, for that matter, to the Bush administration's entreaties to the Arab world to "judge him by his actions rather than by his record" - the Israeli newspaper Haaretz simply went and asked the Israeli prime minister where he wants to take the country. And in a wide-ranging interview published over the weekend, Sharon set out a rather grim vision of an embattled Israel surviving in a state of cold war with its Arab neighbors for the next decade and beyond...
...tough-cutie charms that suggest she could develop a real edge as an actress once she hits her teen years and Sabara, while playing his "sad hangdog" card a bit too much, carries a scrappy, underdog appeal. While it's unclear whether diehard Rodriguez fans will embrace this kinder, gentler Robert (and I, for one, will stick to the frenetic pleasure of his action opuses), Spy Kids, armed with a warm vitality all its own, can at least be credited with combating the black hole of family cinema, rather than feeding...
...from 9% in the mid-1970s to a low of 2.3% in late 1987, is now about 4% and climbing. That will provide a larger pool of investment capital and could help the U.S. regain its competitive footing. The poor may also eventually benefit if the notion of a kinder, gentler America is translated into concrete action...