Word: mannerize
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...approaches to conversation. While I tend to find disagreement threatening, for my friend, it was his main mode of interaction. By striking up contention in our conversations, he wasn’t trying to drive me away—he was simply conversing in his usual manner...
...what is the right bedside manner for a deeply divided electorate? Lately Dean has been intrigued by the writings of University of California, Berkeley, cognitive linguist George Lakoff, the author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Lakoff argues that liberals, with their "nurturing parent" view of the world, have lost ground in the values debate to "strict father" conservatives. In the middle, Lakoff writes, are "bi-conceptuals," who have internalized both parents. The question for Dean in reaching that small slice of swing voters is, Can he win over their inner mom without seeming like a too permissive...
...vision, commitment and flexibility"?and it's been a very long time since a Pakistani leader has praised an Indian Prime Minister so sincerely. Simultaneously, Pakistan gave a written commitment that it would "not permit any territory under [its] control to be used to support terrorism in any manner," the most definitive response to India's constant drum thump on that issue?and, presumably, a reaction to the attempts on Musharraf's life...
First-years introduced and reintroduced themselves, exchanging hometowns in a manner reminiscent of Freshman Week...
...with my friends, as my mother instructed me, till the streetlights came on. Like most children back in the '80s, when only 5% of U.S. kids were overweight, we were trim, maybe even skinny. But the percentage of overweight or obese children has tripled since then, along with all manner of related health risks, from diabetes to heart disease. And now our quick-fix society has come up with a pill for the problem: Xenical, the first obesity drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adolescents...