Word: savvyness
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When he announces on cable, Malin says he tiresto focus his analysis on the strategies employedby coaches and players. But on network TV, theinternational office director says he must"personalize" his approach and tell stories aboutthe players in order to appeal to a lesssoccer-savvy audience.
+ With a smart cast and a chic patina, Ron Howard's The Paper reprises this theme, less to celebrate old times than to offer a skeptical perspective on career men and women. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), metro editor for the Sun, a New York City tabloid, has to worry about...
However, public-key encryption created a headache for the NSA by giving ordinary citizens -- and savvy criminals -- a way to exchange coded messages that could not be easily cracked. That headache became a nightmare in 1991, when a cypherpunk programmer named Phil Zimmermann combined public-key encryption with some conventional...
Loving a bargain is universal. It is the equivalent of a good kill after a long hunt. You feel intelligent, attractive, savvy. Shouting a bargain from the rooftops, however, is an uniquely American tendency. Especially in New England, our culture admires thrift as well as appearances.
That sounded like hyperbole, but none of the committee members were surprised. Even the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dennis DeConcini, who says he likes Woolsey better than any of his predecessors, finds him "so damn hardheaded" about the budget. The Arizona Democrat does not believe that Woolsey, a...