Word: maximalism
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...After our years here, many of us actually take solace in the Socrates maxim: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” In writing a 147-page thesis, I still barely scratched the surface of my field of study. Yet the very fact that I realize this is oddly comforting: Perhaps this place has taught me well...
...families beat reporter at "The Roanoke Times," will study the financial, social, and political impact of the aging baby boomer population; former NBC correspondent and current freelance multimedia journalist Kevin Sites will focus on developing a model for sustainable, independent Web-centric journalism; and Russian op-ed editor Maxim Trudolyubov will study the interaction of opinion journalism with contemporary media and society. In response to the journalism industry’s diminishing reliance on print media and its transition to more technologically advanced forms of reporting, the Foundation will introduce a yearlong multimedia curriculum designed to teach the fellows...
...sure, some players don't mind dressing up and showing off their skills to loutish men. "There's this terrible stigma that if you're attractive, you can't play sports," says Anna Rawson, the rising LPGA star who was named Maxim's Sexiest New Athlete in February 2008. "Men are shocked by how good we are." Many are working for Sadekar to help make ends meet. Most Play Golf Designs players are on the futures tour, still chasing their fragile big-league dreams. By playing in corporate junkets and on bachelor-party outings, these women can supplement their sparse...
...lived with the weight of hope and hype that has landed on the Obamas. Clothes they wear fly off the shelves. Dog breeders from Germany to Australia couldn't keep up with the demand for Portuguese water dogs after Bo debuted. Michelle is the first First Lady to make Maxim's hottest-women-in-the-world list. (She's No. 93; it probably wouldn't be proper for a First Lady to come in any higher.) Cameras with lenses that can count her pores from three states away are trained on her around the clock. Former East Wing veterans marvel...
...Getting to Know You Just a year ago, more people had a poor opinion of Michelle Obama (35%) than a good one (30%). During the primaries especially, she was too hot, and not in the way Maxim means it. She talked about America as being "just downright mean," and lazy, and cynical, how life for most people had "gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime." Seeing an opportunity, conservative critics dubbed her Mrs. Grievance, called her bitter and anti-American, to the point that her husband had to defend her patriotism and call the attacks on her "detestable...