Word: minding
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...that's not a knock on him. He displays real humanity, and you rarely get that with an athlete of his caliber. And it shows you how physically gifted he is, how good he is with a racket, that he has been so successful even without this samurai mind-set. Nadal is the opposite in some ways. He can blow a two-set lead, lose match points and still be absolutely confident that he's going...
...says Neil Stewart, who was Political Secretary to Neil Kinnock, Labour's leader during its wilderness years in the 1980s and early 1990s. "This third term should have been the most reforming. It's been first waiting for Tony to go and then waiting for Gordon to make his mind up. I can hardly believe the damage of that internecine battle, just how utterly destructive and wasteful of huge amounts of political capital that...
...When a person has in his mind to come to die, nobody can stop him.' JAMIL KHARWAR, spokesman for the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, where at least 16 people died in a June 9 suicide bombing...
...model these days is not treating illness but preventing it. The prescription is prevention. Three-quarters of our health-care costs are attributable to chronic, preventable diseases. The way to avoid them (as well as expensive treatments) is to eat well, exercise, get checkups, vaccinate your kids and mind your mental state. That will help you--and help the health-care system as a whole...
...water and has smoothly made the cable-TV rounds to chide the close-knit club that determined financial policy in the past. She argues that now, finally, taxpayers "have a seat at the table." If this sounds like advocacy, that might be exactly what Democratic Party bosses had in mind when they selected her. Since a special inspector general was also appointed to investigate Treasury's actions, Warren's oversight panel was left with little actual power. But it performs a much more public function. Though some of the panel's reports have been less than revelatory, there have been...