Word: mannered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kerry gave an eloquent speech to a group of left-liberal activists on the day of Bush's Baghdad trip. "It is not enough to argue with the logistics [of the war] ... or the manner of the conflict's execution or the failures of competence, as great as they are," Kerry said, to wild cheers. "It's essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake." It was an appropriate act of contrition, but then-as is his awkward wont-Kerry overreacted and called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year...
...never happened before. As the world looked on, incredulous, a people armed principally with courage and determination (and a few filched guns) fought one of the most spectacular revolutions of modern times. Behind barricades, from rooftops and apartment windows, they harried their powerful oppressors in the classic revolutionary manner, and at week's end they had wrung from the most ruthless of modern despotisms a promise of the right to be free. Havana, Cuba Dec. 9, 1957 Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed...
...Lilian Jessie Paul likes globombed. Sudip Banerjee, president of enterprise solutions at Wipro, prefers flattened, with a nod to Thomas Friedman, author of the globalization bible The World Is Flat. Says Banerjee: "The jobs will go to those who can do them best, in the most cost-effective manner. Geography is irrelevant." That's something Indians are starting to learn...
...much of it to eat, even the order in which to eat it. But Mom's influence over the dinner menu has proved no match for the $36 billion in food-marketing dollars ($10 billion directed to kids alone) designed to get us to eat more, eat all manner of dubious neofoods, and create entire new eating occasions, such as in the car. Some food culture...
...wasn’t the idea of constant learning that administrators got wrong—it was the time and manner in which this learning would occur. The real thinking takes place during the 4 a.m. debate about whether Kantian ethics can prove “Crash” really was an Oscar-worthy film, or the middle–of-the-afternoon discussion on how Foucault proves that “Pimp My Ride” can only be understood as a social phenomenon embedded in relationships of dominance and control...