Word: manneredness
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Mild-mannered mom and first-term incumbent Patty Murray, a Democrat, is the antithesis of the modern-day celebrity politician. She doesn't look like one, she doesn't talk like one, she doesn't even care to be one. "I didn't run to be a politician," she said...
The perpetrator? A mild-mannered sixth-grade girl. The weapon? Dave's Insanity Gourmet Hot Sauce. According to school officials, the offending student offered the sauce to her unsuspecting classmates during morning snack time. After the sauce worked its gastrointestinal magic, paramedics were called to the scene. Six pupils went...
Arriving at Harvard I had no idea that I would be encountering anything worse than Expos. Bikes. More specifically, 28-geared high-tech ultra-light mountain bikes with front and rear shocks and tires with treads an inch deep. Astride this machine of terror rides the Harvard student. We all...
As a young Harvard graduate, for instance, Ellen feels pressured to live up to the expectations of her National Book Award-winning father George (even though he went to Yale). William Hurt, as George, offers us an almost totally inaccessible character. But Hurt's approach is perfectly metered; he sheds...
Like most 13-year-olds, Brian Wennerstrum loves video games and his mom--and isn't all that crazy about school. An eighth-grader at Callanan Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa, he is quiet and well-mannered, a little unfocused at times, and popular with classmates and teachers. He...