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...what possible reason? Before the withdrawal, attacks across the border could have been rationalized with the usual Palestinian mantra of occupation, settlements and so on. But what can one say after the withdrawal...
...adjectives lavished on a dish can be as important as the names of the ingredients. What would you rather eatplain grilled chicken or flame-broiled chicken with a garlic rub? Scrambled eggs or farm-fresh eggs scrambled in butter? "Think 'flavors and tastes,'" Rapp says, repeating a favorite mantra. "Words like crunchy and spicy give the customer a better idea of what something will be like." Longer, effusive descriptions should be reserved for signature items. Especially the profitable ones...
...which is not easy to do, especially on the first try.ONE DOWN, MORE TO GOLying amidst her backpacks from a recent trip to the Oral History Center she co-founded in Kenya, Elkins’ Pulitzer is not a crowning achievement but further testament to her mantra of hard work: The scholar is cranking out a sophomore publication that will examine the fall of the British Empire after the Second World War from the periphery.The Kenyan government honored her in a reception during Elkins’ latest visit to Kenya, but she knows that her storytelling provokes plenty...
This selective memory seems to be a choice made because we believe, as the oft-repeated mantra goes, that the best part about Harvard is not Harvard itself but the people you meet here. If that’s true, the best way to memorialize our four years must be to make out with as many of those people as we can before we graduate...
...Costello shrieks, referring to an era of high indebtedness when Labor leader Kim Beazley was in charge of the nation's finances. Soon there'll be no tax on superannuation benefits taken at age 60, Costello brags. When the cheering stops, he cheekily claims success for his procreation mantra, "One for Mum, one for Dad, one for the country...