Word: soberness
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...Debbie to a club; she meets Ben, they get drunk, have sex. etc. Eight weeks later, she suspects she's pregnant. Hmmm: at just the moment when she's been promoted to being an on-air reporter, she gets knocked up by a loser she barely knows and, when sober, can't stand. Some women would terminate the pregnancy. Alison doesn't, because ... because then there would be no movie - at least, not the kind Apatow wants to make. (Suggestion for an edgier romantic comedy. Two unsuited people get together, girl gets pregnant, has abortion, then decides she likes...
...these circumstances, the U.S. should pursue a calm, strategic (and nontheatrical) policy toward Moscow that will help ensure that a future, more sober Kremlin leadership recognizes that a Russia linked more closely to the U.S. and the E.U. will be more prosperous, more democratic and territorially more secure. The U.S. should avoid careless irritants, like its clumsily surfaced initiative to deploy its missile defenses next door to Russia. And it should not dismiss out of hand Moscow's views on, for example, negotiations with Iran, lest Russia see its interests better served by a U.S.-Iran...
...erudite icon. A tenacious athlete--he got his Taekwondo black belt at 78--Valenti was well suited to his role as Hollywood lobbyist-ambassador. One of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, he was in the motorcade in which John F. Kennedy was killed and attended Johnson's sober swearing-in on Air Force One. As head of the MPAA from 1966 to 2004, he championed open markets for movies, fought digital piracy, decried censorship and launched the self-policing U.S. rating system...
...only Bayrou adherent to exercise that civic protest against what he sees as a choice between second-raters. Such tactics may assuage the conscience, but they're unlikely to change the outcome of the May 6 vote; they even seem slightly out of step with the sober, every-vote-must-count mood of the moment. In this election, even the 18-to-24-year-old age group moved decisively away from fringe parties and protest votes in favor of mainstream candidates. In 2002 the conservative Jacques Chirac and Socialist Lionel Jospin secured only 22% of the young vote; this time...
...John McCain's speech to the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute is the best single analysis by any political figure of where we stand in the war in Iraq. It is a serious and sober attempt to persuade the American people that the war is winnable, that we should give Gen. Petraeus a chance to win it, and that accepting defeat would be both ignoble and disastrous to American interests. With this morally and intellectually impressive speech, John McCain took leadership of the fight for victory in Iraq...