Word: maximizes
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...wasn’t pretty. And it definitely wasn’t easy. But with its 76-74 win over Dartmouth last weekend at Lavietes Pavilion, the Harvard men’s basketball team fulfilled the only maxim that matters to any Ivy League team...
...harnessed a global coalition in the first Iraq war. In 1991, the means dwarfed the end, and not the other way round, leaving the U.S. with a margin of maneuver it does not enjoy today. Urge Bush to return to the grandest tradition of American global leadership. The proper maxim is to cajole rather than confront, argue rather than annoy, persuade rather than provoke. Point out that none of America's key interests can be achieved without allies of weight. There is no going it alone when it comes to Iranian and North Korean nukes, Islamic terror or peace...
...which “he swallowed my pee” can be followed two songs later by “We Oh We,” which sounds like the “quiet song” at a contemporary church service. If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim about the true test of intelligence can be extended to albums as well, then Mississauga is a pretty damn smart album; but, like all smarts, it’s only bound to appreciated by a select...
...Bowl in his native St. Louis, but more to the point, he knows no such thing as an ironic thrill. Ever since he became an instant gazillionaire thanks to his 2000 nursery-rhyme hit, Country Grammar, his life has been dedicated to the fulfillment of a Maxim-style populist fantasy: fun, all the time. He owns a massive house by a Missouri lake, a clothing line and a slice of an NBA team, and, if they kept charts on such things, he would easily be the No. 1 artist in the history of the exotic-dance industry. (Strippers love...
...high stakes game continues. While prospects for a peaceful outcome at Najaf persist, its attainment will depend in large part on Moqtada Sadr's sense of timing - and his, and Allawi's, grasp of the maxim that "politics is the art of the possible...