Word: polished
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...everyone else style can be dangerous territory, as the Japanese demonstrated with their bizarre multicolored tie-dyed cloaks. The Austrians looked as if they'd prepared for the wrong Games and had come in their winter uniforms. The Russian and Polish teams seemed to have bought their wardrobes from the cheapest outfitters in downtown Smolensk or Gdansk. The winners in the fashion stakes were definitely, and hardly surprisingly, the Italians, who went for simple, classic style with a twist. Both men and women wore elegantly cut dark jackets over trousers or skirts in half a dozen bold colors. The ensemble...
...badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems--the embarrassment of having peacekeepers taken hostage in Sierra Leone, the contempt of the U.S. Congress. But these haven't diminished the high polish he has brought to the job. Annan, 62, is a miracle of our internationalized world: born in Ghana, educated in the U.S. and Europe, a career U.N. diplomat who became Secretary-General in 1997. As Secretary-General he has begun to thrust the U.N. into new realms of global life...
...that, for the immigrant class, there isn't reason to hope - certainly the Italian, Irish and Polish newcomers of a century ago have joined the American elite to some degree, and perhaps Latinos, Asians and blacks can expect the same. Of course, the Italians, Irish and Polish looked a lot more like the elites that were already in place, and for America to be vertically colorblind, it may just take the "browning of America," by generations of inter-marriage, that Tiger Woods embodies and will occasionally talk about...
...elect the next president of the United States, Al Gore," he began, but by the time he had made his way through the explanation of how enemy becomes endorsee he had set a very high bar for the nominal star, not just in health care policy but in rhetorical polish. Perhaps Bill Clinton's was not the only valedictory of the week - perhaps Bradley's was liberalism's too. But Gore's Thursday night hurdle grows ever higher...
...first and most extensive story she told was that of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who mounted a campaign before World War II to outlaw genocide--a term he invented...