Word: statesmanly
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...Iraq is stripped of its weapons of mass destruction and that's been verified by the inspectors, then Mr. Bush can say two things: first, "Thanks to my intervention, Iraq has been disarmed," and second, "I achieved all that without spilling any blood." In the life of a statesman, that counts--no blood spilled...
...Yard’s landscape even presents those bound to Lamont with a gilded alternative: Widener, the venerable elder statesman of Harvard’s many libraries and an ideal location for scholarship of all sorts. Of course, its size inhibits it from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...
...seem irresponsible now that he needs to knuckle down to his job (which involves, among other things, raising $45 million to endow his ngo for preserving Afghanistan's heritage, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation). But when it comes to describing the project that so impassions him, he's all statesman: "This is a development project that says 'we respect your traditional culture, and we are going to put our resources and our technology and our knowledge toward supporting it,' as opposed to a development project which says 'we don't like your traditional culture and we want to change it.' That...
...agnostic arguments. The most bitter yelling and name-calling was saved for the final battle of wits and words between heavy-hitters Bryan and Darrow. Darrow surprised the audience by calling Bryan to the witness stand, on the premise of his Bible expertise. Darrow succeeded in lampooning the aging statesman and the audience was brought to laughter when a flustered Bryan responded to a tough question with “I do not think about what I do not think about!” In the end, Bryan and his creationist views were morally defeated. The narrator then described...
...pride," says Elie Khoury, a leading pro-democracy activist who created the "I Love Life" advertising campaign to perk up Lebanese spirits. "We have a Prime Minister who is not performing like a politician." Adds Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a staunch Siniora ally: "He has proved to be a statesman. The coup d'état would have meant that the Lebanese dream of an independent Lebanon, a prosperous Lebanon, would be over...