Word: sharp
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...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...What would President Gore do? Well, on Capitol Hill in March, Citizen Gore offered his ideas. He advocates an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions and a campaign of sharp reductions-90% by 2050. To get there, he would eliminate the payroll tax and replace it with a carbon tax, so the cost of pollution is finally priced into the market. "I understand this is considered politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow...
...Qaeda has lost its most powerful friend in Iraq: Harith al-Dari, the country's most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure, has rejected al-Qaeda's vision of an Islamic state, telling TIME that Iraqis "will not accept such a system." In a sharp departure from his long-standing view of the terror group, al-Dari now says al-Qaeda has "gone too far." He also repudiates recent statements on Iraq by Osama bin Laden's deputy, saying: "Ayman al-Zawahiri doesn't represent Iraqis...
Sarkozy's basic working style isn't likely to change: he surrounds himself with trusted lieutenants and then keeps a sharp eye on them. "He's not on your back, but he wants to be informed about everything, good or bad," says Eric Cesari, a member of Sarkozy's presidential Cabinet at the Council of Hauts-de-Seine, the suburban belt outside Paris that includes his fiefdom of Neuilly. "He can be demanding, even harsh and rude, but what he wants is that you tell him the truth. He has no use for yes men." Says Jacques Gautier, Sarkozy...
...Schipper can't get to his medication quickly or if it doesn't kick in, he will experience a neurological event that 28 million Americans know all too well--the tidal wave of headaches known as a migraine. For Schipper the pain is sudden and sharp. "The front quarter of my head begins to pound and throb," he says. In extreme cases, he vomits violently every 20minutes. His senses of smell and hearing become agonizingly acute. "All I want to hear is gentle white noise at most and no movement, please. If there's a car alarm that goes...