Word: letting
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...Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away... --John Milton, Lycidas...
...knows that in the delicate triangular relationship linking China, Taiwan and the U.S., the subtlest of words and actions can spark a conflagration. When he persuaded Washington to let him visit his alma mater, Cornell, four years ago, the first-of-a-kind trip by a Taiwanese leader since the U.S. dropped diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from...
...office. He furnished his corner office, which was on the same floor as the rest of the magazine, modestly. "It felt like a college newspaper," says the former staffer. "We were once on deadline, feverishly trying to get the magazine out, and he walked in and said, 'Let's go to the park and play touch football.' People were appalled, but they appreciated a gesture he made in the fall of 1996, when the staff was again putting an issue to bed. Kennedy decided they needed to unwind: he called the Yankees front office and procured 41 skybox passes...
...offered to shuttle me to the outskirts of Hamilton. From there I could hitch a ride to Raglan. "It's very hitchable," he assured me. I accepted the offer and wondered if his generosity had anything to do with the fact that yesterday I had introduced myself as a Let's Go New Zealand research-writer...
After about 35 minutes we were there. He dropped me off in town and I thanked him with an clumsy "cheers." I looked at my watch and surveyed the town. Raglan--or Raglan-by-the-sea--was compact enough for me to cover in about 2 hours. As a Let's Go Researcher-Writer I had come to appreciate the art of bagging an entire town--updating "Practical Information," "Accommodations," "Food," "Sights and Activities"--in one furious swoop. So I consulted my wad of Let's Go documents and headed off to do Raglan, my after noon shift...