Word: lovefest
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...Bush's effusions notwithstanding, the lovefest in Ljubljana was more a product of strategy than chemistry. At a White House briefing with outside experts before the summit, Bush telegraphed an intense desire for his first encounter with Putin to go smoothly. In the first few months after taking office, Bush was under constant assault by European allies for his unilateralist foreign policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat...
...create a kind of “Be Mine” swapmeet for about half-hour after recess, allowing the kids with the most Garfield valentines or pastel candy necklaces to gloat over the proof of their fame. For whatever reason, I completely forgot about the scheduled lovefest and had nothing to give. I sat quietly at my desk and watched as Kelly Kinchen told everyone not to give me any chocolate hearts because I was too stingy to bring any of my own. Our teacher was—in typical public elementary school fashion—oblivious to Kelly?...
Adhering to self-imposed recruiting standards means that Duke works with a talent pool far shallower than the competition's. The reward is that Coach K's lovefest with his players is never put in jeopardy. "How good was it for me to spend 148 games with Shane Battier?" asks Krzyzewski, referring to the 2000-01 season's consensus college player of the year. "Literally, over a thousand locker-room settings. How much is that worth, to be with that kid for four years? Or to be with Wojciechowski or Laettner or Hill or Hurley or..." he trails...
...global forum on racism and its remedies was never going to be a buy-the-world-a-Coke lovefest, but it's in danger of descending into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary...
...against New York. Men, women, and children of all ages stand along Yawkey Way before and after every game, hawking bootleg “Yankees suck” T-shirts. A week ago I went to an Allman Brothers concert at the Tweeter Center—a four-hour lovefest of billowing marijuana smoke and pricey hot dogs—and as I headed for the exit, do you know what the aging hippies were chanting? Not “Duane lives!” or “Bring back Dickey!” No, the crowd was yelling...