Word: mojo
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...hands have been pressed against my heels for 10 minutes, and she'll be damned if she stops before I breathe into my feet, let the energy go and give it to her. And I'm trying. I've tried willing my feet to warm up, push out the mojo, even glow. I've tried breathing heavily, meditating, briefly falling asleep. There are crystals on my forehead, my chest, my throat, clutched in both my hands. But Narayan is not satisfied. Eventually she gives up. "Whoa, dude. You put up a fight," she says...
...three from St. John's Kelly McMammon kills the Harvard mojo. 71-52 St. John's. Uh...make that...
...Confidence Game As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag is a card-carrying numbers guy. But lately Orszag has been reading up on that aspect of the economy ungoverned by numbers: the realm of groundswell and mojo - our "animal spirits," in the vivid words of economist John Maynard Keynes. Spirits such as trust, belief and confidence. When surging, these spirits can turn a slump into a boom and a boom into a bubble, but once they shatter, it's a devilish job trying to resurrect them. That's because other animal spirits rise up to take...
...politics, where Italy's gerontocracy and unwritten party rules co-opt the young with the false promise that they should wait for a few years and their turn will come around. By the time they do finally step up, once aspiring (and inspiring) leaders have long since lost their mojo and forgotten the new ideas they once had. (See pictures of Italy's good life...
...20th century was not good to Europe's once mighty kings and queens. Old World royals lost most of their monarchical mojo, with their powers now limited to the purely ceremonial, as in Sweden, or to such roles as the Spanish King's command of his country's armed forces. The last absolute monarch left on European soil is Pope Benedict...