Word: mensch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most importantly, both Baker and Carter have a reputation of fairness among all sides and should be competent enough to act as a presidential surrogate while you and Al concentrate on fixing the economy. My personal recommendation would be Carter, if only because he's much more of a mensch...
...which Guns N' Roses vocalist and lead delinquent Axl Rose is still hopping and gyrating tirelessly. "It was considered by both bands that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put on this kind of spectacular show," explains Cliff Burnstein, who, with his partner Peter Mensch, manages Metallica...
...communicated. His published memoirs are considered a fine specimen of political literature. He is a brilliant orator, leaving spectacular crescendos and deafening pauses to resonate through the audience. He has no trouble using the words capisce and chutzpah in the same sentence, and he comes out sounding like a mensch every time. He is, in a word, inspiring...
...goon with a grudge, a hyperactive child on steroids. The summer blockbusters show how he can die hard or douse a forest fire or terminate the bad guys. But he still needs educating, humanizing. Why, with a woman's touch, a man can be a mensch -- warm, winsome, wonderful, wuvable and all those other sweet w adjectives. Also, in Hollywood's late-summer films, way too wimpy...
Still, Jackson concludes that perhaps Germans "are not meant to be a happy people. I want to tell my German friends, 'Lighten up, Mensch, count your blessings.' " But as he reports in this week's story, their feelings are complex, and the shape of the new republic will be evolving for years to come...