Word: sharpness
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...wanted Conor to look sharp at this wedding--not for his sake, of course, but for mine. I knew my sister-in-law would be on top of things, that her two boys would turn up lint free, with pants creased. I couldn't let her show me up. Conor had to look good so that I would look good...
When Ann Coulter published Slander last year, she didn't just score a surprise No. 1 best seller; she also discovered an entire new audience hungry for her notoriously sharp-tongued, unabashedly right-wing rhetoric. Now she's back with Treason (Crown Forum; 355 pages), and as TIME's Lev Grossman discovered, she has in no way mellowed with...
...chuck that empty Altoids box--you may want to use it as a camera case. An array of supersmall digital cameras, including the stylish $400 Pentax Optio S, above, have hit stores, offering eye-popping designs, loads of features and sharp picture quality. Sony's candy bar-size DSC-U30 is the cutest ($200), Canon's PowerShot S400 the most rugged ($500) and Casio's slim Exilim the most likely to be confused for a platinum card ($280 to $400). --By Jeffrey Ressner
Though Tung announced halfhearted concessions to the crowds, including the scrapping of provisions giving police arbitrary powers to enter homes, he has not addressed the underlying crisis of confidence in his government. His concessions failed to go far enough, provoking a sharp public reaction. Even Hong Kong's popular former Chief Secretary Anson Chan broke her usual queenly reticence. "Both the government and the Legislative Council have demonstrated that they were not responsive to community aspirations," she stated. "It almost seems as if they're daring the people to take to the streets...
...problems arise. "We don't want to do anything that increases the risk patients face," McClellan says. "We're the gold standard for safety, and we're going to stay that way." It all adds up to big changes in an industry prone to speculative excess. Given the sharp run-up this year, Weisbrod's hedge fund has cut its biotech holdings a third, and six top executives at Genentech recently sold $36 million of the company's stock. The relatively stodgy feel of the Biogen-IDEC deal has still other growth investors running for the hills...