Word: scottishly
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...pilloried by the left wing of the Scottish press,” Glaeser said. “The car is so anathema to them that saying anything accepting of the automobile is considered outrageous...
Meanwhile, other Scottish journalists displayed a perverse fascination with Glaeser’s gastronomic habits...
Medals are so last month. Secretary of State COLIN POWELL just got a new badge of honor. Scottish heraldic authorities have granted Powell, whose mother had Scottish ancestors, his very own coat of arms. On his crest, our top diplomat will have an eagle to denote the U.S., a lion because he's a military man and four stars for the rank he attained as general. Maybe now he can broker truces between raging British soccer fans...
...empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
...industry based on looks, Byrne's open face (of Irish-Scottish ancestry, she can appear almost Asian) should take her places. But it's her sense of humor as much as anything else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that...