Word: spirited
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...rapid growth, it seems impossible to some that new jobs and rising incomes will somehow suddenly vanish. Gao Yajun, a 26-year-old Beijing photographer, sees opportunity in crisis. "My hunch is that it might turn out to be a golden opportunity to make money," he says. That spirit may be Asia's best protection against America's problems...
...hard to understand the nostalgia that many Americans feel for a return to the culture of small-town America - to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and cooperation within the international community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, FREDERICKSBURG...
...engage in frivolous, small-ball distractions, a disposition that served McCain poorly when he pivoted and tried to portray himself as a sober statesman willing to halt his campaign to deal with the nation's financial meltdown. Most recently, McCain rolled out an ad calling on a new spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation in the nation's capital only a day after blaming the House of Representatives' defeat of the Administration's bailout bill on Democrats and Obama...
...second half-hour, Heaney read several yet to be published poems, inspired by his translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship...
...Coming to a new agreement, however, will require getting past some very bruised feelings. The GOP leadership was quick to point outraged fingers, citing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's closing speech before the vote as breaking the bipartisan spirit of the proceedings. "The Speaker had to give a partisan voice [sic] that poisoned our conference, caused a number of members we thought we could get to go south," Boehner ranted to reporters after the vote - as if partisan speeches had never before been heard on the House floor...