Word: statesmanly
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...impetus for the slam was David J. Morin, elder statesman of Harvard physics poetry, who suggested the idea to SPS. Morin, the head teaching fellow for Physics 16, wrote the sourcebook for the class, which is filled with more than 40 limericks, including...
...playing style is “old-school, but effective” and calls Enoch’s challenges “quality competition.” But she does say that she’s never very nervous that she might lose to the elder statesman of the sport...
...Even Sharon's rise to Prime Minister may have been more a product of circumstance than strategic design. Sharon, as the elder statesman of the Likud Party, was made caretaker leader two years ago after the party's candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, was trounced by Barak. And it was in his capacity as opposition leader that he led a phalanx of security men onto Jerusalem's Temple Mount in September 2000, to underline his opposition to Barak's negotiations over sharing it with the Palestinians. The visit sparked the first riots of what became the Al Aqsa intifada. And the intifada...
...Jiang Zemin more than bonding with Bush. He needs America. Jiang faces probably the most bruising power struggle of his career as he tries to secure his legacy by placing his protEgEs on crucial perches before he retires at a year-end Party Congress. Having sold himself as a statesman, he risks tarnishing that image if relations with the world's only superpower plummet like a downed spy plane. "If Jiang can show that relations with the U.S. are in good shape, it will enable him to appoint more of his own men to the top positions," says Cheng...
...India-Pakistan relationship have trumped the peaceful ambitions of these two, not the other way round. But as they work to avert a new war on the subcontinent, both the poet and the general might usefully recall how each has publicly aspired to the higher title of statesman...