Word: rude
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...knew how stinky and snorey I was last Sunday morning. Yes, she was simply researching important aspects of her own health care. Yes, who your surgeon is certainly affects what your surgeon does. But I was unnerved by how she brandished her information, too personal and just too rude on our first meeting...
...know if this sort of quiet, unsolicited honesty can work in our rude, noisy politics, but it certainly is far more presidential than the dodging and fudging that you get from most candidates. It has been argued that Obama's style is too cerebral, too élitist. That may be true. He assumes a maturity in his audiences, and in the press, that simply may not exist. But given the stakes in 2008, perhaps it's time for all of us to grow up and meet the challenge of a difficult moment for our country...
...family home with his parents present. There's also the sitcom omniscience of his daughters, who are exasperated by his paternal protectiveness. "You're a good father," his youngest tells him, "but sometimes a bad dad." (This is supposed to be sage; I think it's closer to rude.) In an early scene Dan lectures his middle child that "You can't fall in love in three days." Then he meets Marie and does it in three minutes. See? The advice columnist can't take his own advice. Hilarious...
...success got the most attention because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was once in line to succeed Sandy Weill at Citigroup. According to Monica Langley's book Tearing Down the Walls, Dimon, a notoriously tough manager, got the boot after losing his temper with a fellow executive who had been rude to a colleague's wife at a 1998 corporate retreat. Prince, Weill's legal adviser, inherited the top job in his place...
...rough month. But if Republicans think things will improve now that House Democrats have failed in their vote Thursday to override President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), they are in for a rude awakening...