Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doing what I'm supposed to be doing," Henry Miller admits with a laugh. In fact, Miller, 58, a former Xerox Corp. executive who was downsized two years ago, isn't even in the right realm. After spending more than three decades in the impersonal, male-dominated corporate world, Miller now finds himself in women's territory--and he's having the time of his life. He is running a business in a traditionally female-run field: the boarding, training and grooming of dogs. His Boom Towne Canine Center in Farmington, N.Y., is heading for 2005 sales...
...London, never aspired to be a war correspondent, to say the least. But a few twists of fate found him with a notepad on the front line in Iraq, where he almost died...of anxiety. He recalls his brief, brief stay in the war zone in his new, laugh-out-loud memoir, War Reporting for Cowards (Atlantic Monthly Press). "No, this is not an antiwar book," writes Ayres, 30. "This is an anti-sending-me-to-war book; an I-didn't-want-to-go book." We reached Ayres by phone, safely embedded in his Los Angeles office...
...work, I don't make any distinction at all. People say, what do you write? I say, I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women-books about relationships, books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little...
...eastern German voters, who could tip the election. Stoiber regretted that "not all parts of the German population are as clever as Bavarians" and said he cannot accept "that the east determines who becomes Chancellor." Merkel was forced to reprimand Stoiber publicly. Schröder may be laughing at the cdu's blunders now, but Merkel may yet have the last laugh...
...It’s an issue of free speech. When Shakespeare was writing hundreds of years ago, his plays were considered very risqué,” he said. “He threw in bawdy jokes to those at the bottom to make people laugh, but he also threw in beautiful thoughts...