Word: polished
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...armed forces from other nations that are fighting alongside the Americans. George W. Bush and Tony Blair are trying to portray the Iraq conflict as one fought by the international community against evil and tyranny. Time needs to provide an explanation to the families of Italian, Spanish, British and Polish soldiers who have fought and died in Iraq. Why weren't their lives and sacrifices recognized as noble and noteworthy like those of Americans? Marek Witko London...
...this responsibility has been placed in the hands of an untested first-year coach, Peter Nowak, a former Polish national team, German Bundesliga and MLS standout. Nowak replaces Ray Hudson—who suffered through two consecutive losing seasons—in an attempt to rejuvenate a club that won three of the first four MLS titles, but has only been to the playoffs once since...
...tiny dorm rooms where his younger classmates reside, Kaplan reaches up to a handmade bookshelf and dusts off his 1940 Yale thesis on F.D.R. up until now the retired furniture maker has avoided Lasell writing courses. Kaplan skims his old thesis to remind himself how he used to Polish his prose. Having lived through 11 presidencies and the birth of three grandchildren since he penned that last paper, he reviews his work with a critical eye. Then he sets it aside, closes his laptop and puts pen to page the old-fashioned way. It may be his first paper...
...vigor and electricity. But if the Democrats do mount a successful populist campaign against Bush, it will have to be sunny and sophisticated, with the anger carefully rationed. In other words, it will contain, as Kerry's stump speech now does, equal quantities of those eternal military-marching properties--polish and spit. If the nominee is Howard Dean, he'll have to work on the polish...
Democracy's heroes don't always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor...