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Comparing your feelings last night to your feelings on the night you won on 2000, how are they different? What was your reaction? I guess more nostalgia, you know. More, you know, that phrase that [speechwriter] Mark [Salter] wrote for me, you know, give me a chance to serve a little while longer, I think is the right way to put it. We all know that I would never do this again. [Laughs...
...presence has earned the zoo millions of dollars in extra admission and merchandising fees. Nuremberg's zookeepers say that their initially cool response to saving the endangered cubs was meant to avoid another round of "knutmania"; one official insisted that baby giraffes were just as cute. But the reaction to the first photos of the new baby bear suggests that the fascination has hardly faded in Germany, whatever Hollywood decides to do. With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner
...Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (a commonly administered personality test), and pulled out their scores on four separate anxiety scales that measured obsessive or compulsive thoughts; introversion and social exclusion; phobias; and a predisposition to become tense or have a physical reaction, like nausea or hyperventilation, to stressful situations. Even after accounting for other mood problems, like depression or anger, and for a whole host of physiological and demographic indicators - including age, body mass index, education, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and smoking and drinking habits...
...classes. For a comment that would have been taboo if he had narrowed it to one of America’s ethnic groups, it was surprisingly well-received. The Americans at the table laughed and nodded their heads sadly, while the only objections came from foreigners. Strange though this reaction might seem, it’s cause to celebrate: America’s self-doubt is a strength, not a weakness...
...When Romney attempts to communicate that he is having fun, or really experiencing any emotions at all, he lapses into awkward anachronisms: John Edwards' evocation of two Americas "just 'frosts' me." Or, recounting his reaction when his son had named his grandson after him: "I just could not have been more pleased...