Word: primed
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...those Americans and Harvardians mired in the gloom of the global financial crisis, a top Serbian politician offered some much-needed optimism at Harvard yesterday. Amid a global downturn, Serbia has fared comparatively well, and Deputy Prime Minister Mladjan Dinkic, also the Minister for Economy and Regional Development, said the United States needed to follow the small Balkan nation’s lead to revive its economy. Dinkic, who said he was in the country in part to discuss economic issues with a group of U.S. senators, gave suggestions for U.S. recovery to a packed room of students, academics...
That said, The Mentalist works because it's such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...
...dispel cultural stereotypes and reverse traditional gender dynamics. Citing their heightened spontaneity and “zest for life” as the root of her attraction to younger men, Stacey suffuses her statements with not-so-subtle sexuality, gloating: “I’m in my prime, they’re in their prime, so not only is that connection outside the bedroom, it’s inside the bedroom as well!” Swap the genders and this assertion reeks of sexual exploitation. Yet, when applied to Stacey’s zesty boy-toys...
...aging barflies who settled for whoever was still conscious at closing time. The “cougar” does not stem from a female fantasy of sexual empowerment, but from a male one: the desire to dominate and control the subversive sexuality of the woman past her prime. Bedding a woman in her 40s who knows what she wants and has a career to boot is the ultimate validation of a man’s stud-status. Like her counterpart, the MILF (Mother I’d Like to Fuck), the cougar’s brawn does not derive...
...opposition party to the Maoists, the Nepali Congress, disrupted parliament on Tuesday and was joined by 15 other political parties, including a key coalition partner, CPN-UML, to oppose the Maoists' move to unseat Katawal. Even the Indian ambassador to Kathmandu, Rakesh Sood, made several representations to Prime Minister Prachanda, asking him to back down...