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Henry Kissinger once famously asked whom he should call if he wanted to talk to Europe. It was a snide comment about the weak accountability and unwieldy power structure of the European Union. But these days, as the E.U. grapples with a constitutional crisis and gridlock over both its budget and its policies, the answer to Kissinger's question, almost by default, could just be Peter Mandelson. That might seem an unlikely role for a confidant and former close aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Since November 2004, Mandelson, 51, has been the European Commissioner in charge of trade...
...spends the majority of the allotted time playing defense. The discussion deviates onto some tangent the über-students want to dissect, and the TF never manages to guide it back to the larger topic. Frustrated, you’ll roll your eyes or write snide notes to your section buddy. Soon you’ll start coming to section late, sitting in silence, wishing your TF would mysteriously switch section to another room and “forget” to tell the whole class...
HOUSE (FOX, TUESDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) Perhaps because watching one snide Brit isn't enough for America, Hugh Laurie has reaped the benefits of airing after Simon Cowell's American Idol. Laurie camouflages his English accent, but not that British gift for precise derision, as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but nasty diagnostician. House is so gifted not in spite of but because of his cynicism--his misanthropy and suspicion make him the ruthlessly probing skeptic his patients need. And Laurie's portrayal turns House from a routine disease-of-the-week exercise into a chess match with illness...
...would make some witty, clever, or snide remark to the best of my fun-making ability,” says Bulldog Greg Lipstein...
CANDY Despair, Inc. Despair.com) sells BitterSweets, a black, heart-shaped box of conversation candy with an array of snide slogans "for the rest...