Word: manners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...manner in which reports of Summers’ resignation are emerging from Harvard may lend ammunition to professors who have blasted the president’s managerial style...
...1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile, "as much as I've loved staying in the 19th century, maybe it would be interesting to have a change." Stark as the differences are, the acute sense of period...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: That Clooney, who is well liked in Hollywood for his low-key manner and firm principles, is the front runner. It doesn't hurt his chances either that his love child, Good Night, and Good Luck, has six major nominations but a small chance of winning any of them...
...else in the White House with the nerve or clout to bring him back online. Cheney "has a very protective family, plus there is an unfortunate intimidation factor," says a former Administration official. "Very few staff--either in Cheneyworld or Bushworld--are comfortable raising issues in a straightforward manner or giving constructive advice." Over the years and especially during these past hard months, the official says of Cheney, "this has not served him well. There is a culture around him of deference and reverence. More often than not, he is told what people assume he wants to hear rather than...
...member of the Harvard Islamic Society, said last night. “To even hint that we’d become violent when we’ve never shown an inclination of that sort—it is just really offensive to be thought of in that manner...