Word: shrewdly
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...true, and because Clarkson has the kind of voice that sounds intimate and precise coming out of radio speakers--and because she is far more determined and shrewd than anyone has given her credit for--she has survived the blows that inaugurated her career and managed to free herself from her scarlet AI. Her debut album, Thankful, chugged to double-platinum status while the thoroughly enjoyable follow-up, Breakaway, has sold 5 million copies, spawned four Top 10 hits and earned Clarkson, 23, a prime performance slot at the Grammys this Wednesday. (If justice prevails, she'll also pick...
...shrewd way to send a message to Canadians, many of whom assumed a Harper government would move in lockstep with Washington. Nevertheless, the young Conservative leader's victory may indeed have "put a smile" on U.S. President George W. Bush's face--as Liberals jeered during the campaign--if only because Americans have been puzzled and piqued by the Chretien and Martin governments' anti-American rhetoric over the past four years. Even so, Bush was reportedly miffed at Harper for failing to throw his party's support behind the U.S.'s continental ballistic-missile-defense scheme (which the Liberals rejected...
...Beijing Olympics in 2008. Athina has also renewed her Greek passport, and is rumored to be house hunting in Greece. "It's all about giving her a chance," says Yiannis Aletras, an Athens-based lawyer who has represented Thierry Roussel. "Who's to say her grandfather, however shrewd a businessman, would not have given her that chance at the foundation - even as an honorary member?" Those old enough to remember the pugnacious and unsentimental tycoon may doubt that's true. Yet if his granddaughter has inherited even a touch of his spirit, she won't be giving up her fight...
...face facts: Gov. Romney is an ambitious man with a mixed record of political achievement who knows he is unlikely to win another statewide election which would scuttle his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Despite three years on Beacon Hill, the governor remains a shrewd businessman and remembers how to hedge his bets. The governor’s assertion that it is unnecessary to serve another term because his work is finished is an absurdity. There is an abundance of work yet to do, as his lieutenant governor will remind us when she declares her candidacy...
...party seems to be rallying behind Olmert. The wealthy, elegantly dressed 60-year-old attorney with a taste for Havana cigars long ago lost touch with his old, blue-collar Likud constituency. Like Sharon, he has moved far from his hard-right roots to a shrewd pragmatism, becoming an outspoken advocate of separation from the Palestinians. But he lacks his mentor's charisma, military record and popularity with the public...