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...leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is TIME's 2001 Person of the Year...
...first emerged as a star. "In Japan I was using a lot of casual sentence endings when I came out there?and the media and people just immediately reacted to that," she says. "They were all saying, 'Oh, she's so not polite. Look at her, she's so rude.' But that wasn't my intention at all. For a while it was a huge issue. I was thinking, 'Oh, should I start talking very formal in public? Or should I just continue with this casual way of talking?' In the end, I began mixing formal and casual lines...
...with a surprising, even squirming self-effacement--a perverse impulse, for example, to think that somehow Americans may have deserved 9/11 for their sins (notably, the sin of arrogance!). Or the touchingly strange concern in the U.S. that 9/11 might lead Americans to think anti-Islamic thoughts, perhaps be rude to Arabs...
...town is definitely in the house. “I see a Yankees cap. You may marry a Yankees fan or become one,” she said. I bristled as she launched into my future love life. “You’re going to have a rude awakening soon” she said. “Money and work - you’re going to care a lot about that and it’s going to be a balancing act. And you have a problem of following through.” Ouch. At least...
...with a surprising, even squirming self-effacement - a perverse impulse, for example, to think that somehow Americans may have deserved 9/11 for their sins (notably, the sin of arrogance!). Or the touchingly strange concern in the U.S. that 9/11 might lead Americans to think anti-Islamic thoughts, perhaps be rude to Arabs...