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Best Friends started on a shoestring and a smile in a bedroom of Bennett's Chevy Chase, Maryland, home nine years ago, and now operates in 29 public schools nationwide. Beginning in sixth grade, the Friends curriculum pounds into girls--through one-on-one sessions with mentors, dance classes, outings to the theater and an awards lunch with speakers (General Powell in June)--that a happy life is more likely for those who put off sex. "Best Friends works because we have fun," says Bennett. "We glamourize abstinence as much as the culture glamourizes sex." Of the 600 Washington girls...
...late 1994, according to the police, Berenson arrived in Peru with a Panamanian arms dealer named Pacifico Castrellon and rented a three-story house in the Lima suburb of La Molina. She registered as a journalist, and her neighbors knew her only as a quiet gringa with a radiant smile. Berenson and Castrellon, Peruvian police say, were sent together to Peru to meet Miguel Rincon, second-in-command of the MRTA. Castrellon and Rincon, investigators told journalists, both have implicated Berenson. Castrellon says he and Berenson smuggled arms to the guerrillas through Central America; Rincon names her as his "foreign...
...enough to bring a smile to the face of William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and dependable moral scold who, along with Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman and Sam Nunn, launched a crusade last October against what Bennett termed the "cultural rot" of TV talk shows. Said Lieberman at the time: "These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models. It's time for a revolt of the revolted." The trio went so far as to make a TV ad targeting advertisers on the more controversial programs...
...same techniques cannot work the other way around. The fabulous fictional character "Lamar Alexander," for example--Republican presidential candidate, outsider, man of the people, scourge of Washington and everything in it--has been created out of Lamar Alexander, the former establishmentarian and Cabinet official, using little more than a smile and a red flannel shirt. You too can be a New You. All it takes is a change of costume, some prepackaged instant microwavable prejudices and a fresh zip code. Stir in a dollop of self-righteousness, bake for a day or less, and serve promptly...
...winning campaigner. When asked by a reporter in the provincial city of Tula whether he had the makings of a tyrant, Lebed described himself as "the very personification of compromise," pointing to his peacemaking role in the war-torn Trans-Dniestr region. A female fan asked him to "smile more often," and he plaintively replied, "What can I do if I was born with this face...