Word: ruggedness
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Americans, by contrast, tinker endlessly with their patchwork of entitlement programs aimed largely at the poor. The failure to make a French-style commitment has much to do with the reverence Americans have for self-reliance. They cling to a new-frontier notion of rugged individualism, forgetting that those who...
America. Home of the free, land of rugged individualism, and one of only a few places in the world where privacy is considered an inalienable right. Cambridge. The cradle of it all.
Canova is notoriously hard to love. It's not just that his marble carvings, finished to an extreme degree of perfection, run counter to the belief in the rugged, the unfinished and the visibly sincere that descends to us from Michelangelo and Rodin. Nor is it simply that one is...
On a rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm...
Today, as the U.S. spearheads the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Libya for not handing over two suspects in the bombing, Mrs. McKee wonders if Chuck's background contains the secret of why this plane was targeted. If her suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major...