Word: skilling
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Foreign policy has been the step-child issue of this election year, receiving only a fraction of the attention it did during the Cold War. Most observers believe this has hurt President Bush, whose strength seems to lie in foreign policy skill. But a closer look at Bush's handling of foreign affairs reveals not just the lack of a clear moral vision for promoting democracy but serious mishandling of certain world events...
...biggest thing in coaching is motivation, and that's the same skill you need in politics, to motivate voters and campaign workers," the articulate twentysomething coach says. He pauses briefly. And then the story continues...
...Izzy's contribution to the band. With primary songwriting credit for seven tracks, including the hit releases "You Could Be Mine" and "Don't Cry," and sole credit for "You Ain't the First," "Double Talkin' Jive" and "Pretty Tied Up," Stradlin's own brand of musicianship and lyrical skill captured the attention of fans accustomed to Axl's sole possession of the GN'R spotlight...
...pain). For years Walcott has divided his calendar equally between Boston, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Boston University, and a residence in Trinidad, a base for his frequent travels elsewhere in the Caribbean. This regular shuttling between two worlds has kept his poetry balanced between heartless skill and artless passion. The speakers of Walcott's poems are half strangers wherever they find themselves, not because they want to be but because they have no choice. In The Lighthouse, an island vendor approaches the poet and smiles: "Fifty? Then/ you love home harder than youth...
...minister's son, a charming sower of wild oats. He works casually at a raffish trade, newspaper reporting. He drinks. He gambles. He womanizes carelessly. It is only on the river that he asserts his true strength as a guileful fisherman, a man who makes a hard-won skill look easy. Here (and here alone) he is clearly a better man than his father and his brother. But since, as Maclean says in the first sentence of his book, "there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing" in his family, this is no small matter...