Word: paragone
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...paragon of interagency cooperation is the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, which was created in 1986 as a way to get FBI and CIA agents working side by side. In the past three years, the CTC has broken up three planned attacks by the Hizbollah terror group outside the Middle East, all of them targeting locations where Americans could have been killed. The CTC is everything the rest of the intelligence community is not: coordinated, dynamic and designed for the post-cold war threat. As a result, its staff has doubled to 1,000 since Sept. 11, and the Administration...
...Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...ruined and redeemed his life; and a math teacher who has ruthlessly and repeatedly reinvented himself. The action of the novel unfolds in two very different sites—the fame, fortune and appearance-obsessed world of New York City and the suburban town of Rockford, Ill., an erstwhile paragon of industrialization—against the backdrop of contemporary American culture...
...brawl over who America's best social critic might be? Unless you're drinking at George Plimpton's, it's impossible. Perhaps that's why we decided to test your taste for controversy with our choice for America's Best Athlete. Still: Allen Iverson is the nation's paragon of athletic skill? Really...