Word: nosedives
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True, there are signs that Bush's "compassionate conservatism" will soon include more money for the world's poor. The President, who met Bono for the first time earlier this year, will visit Africa in 2003 and recently announced his "Millennium Challenge", a $10 billion increase in American aid funding...
But our familiarity, if we think we have some, is false. There is infinitely more to tell. Women pervade Goya's work. He was fascinated, obsessed with them and recorded all their aspects, actual and mythic, typified and individual. His subjects come from all classes. They appear as demonic witches...
Neither does Wu, a native of Wenzhou, long renowned for producing hard-nosed businessmen. His concerns are familiar to entrepreneurs the world over: competition, innovation and industrial espionage. Boosted by an e-commerce website, sales were up 1,200% last year, half of the total accounted for by exports. Wu...
Written and drawn by a woman, Wataru Yoshizumi, "Marmalade Boy" has a beguiling comedic charm that make it entertaining even to those beyond its target demographic. It begins when Miki Koishikawa nearly drops dead of shame as her parents announce they are switching partners with another couple, the Matsuuras, and...
As far as TV was concerned, there were once three branches of government: lawyers, judges and hard-nosed cops who played by their own set of rules. Otherwise, government was ratings death. "The feeling was, once you got into Washington and politics," says Aaron Sorkin, creator-writer of The West...