Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After all those years spent learning from the master, it's no surprise that her candidate's persona last week was profoundly Clintonian--by turns folksy and falsely humble, dazzlingly smart and suddenly peremptory, as when she ignored or brushed aside inconvenient questions about the Lewinsky scandal (the affair that helped make this run possible, after all, by boosting sympathy and softening her image). All week long she tried her best to stick to a script that called on her to listen and learn, seeming to absorb knowledge and wisdom from local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica...
...Smart tyrants know they?re in trouble when tens of thousands of unarmed demonstrators suddenly lose their fear of the security forces. And when 10,000 students fought a sixth day of pitched battles against riot police in Tehran Tuesday despite dire warnings against demonstrating, Iran?s leaders ? who themselves made a revolution 20 years ago ? may be feeling history catching up with them. The student protesters are targeting the country?s hard-line religious leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khameini, the supreme ruler who also controls the security forces. Although many of the demonstrators are carrying portraits of President Mohamed...
...space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...
Source: Project Vote Smart...
...bottom reliance on Harvard as the Ivy League nemesis--must they really compare themselves to Harvard? Can't a university wake up in the morning, look at itself in mirror, and (to quote the ancient semi-comedic television past), declare "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me"? Perhaps the US News and World Report has eliminated this forever, but why the constant competition...