Word: stewarding
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...customs: "Whenever someone offers you something to eat, accept it. That's being polite." Booth followed the advice, inhaling more exotic food, culture and adventure in those three years than most people manage in a lifetime. He eventually returned to Britain, worked as a truck driver, legal clerk, wine steward, English teacher and, only after he turned 40, a writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books...
...Whether or not Iraqis accept the new government as an authentic steward of their aspirations will depend on what it delivers in the realm of security and self-government. Allawi's government takes office facing the same legitimacy challenge as its predecessor, the Iraqi Governing Council, in that both bodies were appointed largely by outsiders rather than elected by Iraqis themselves. But even though former members of the IGC play a dominant role in the new governing arrangement, there remains a crucial difference: the new Interim Government has a limited mandate - it is not empowered to enact or change basic...
...club steward, Louis Lacroix, who Shofner describes as “a 65-year-old retired military man,” was so angry about the female intrusion that he ran upstairs and locked himself in a room with all the food. A graduate of the club had to talk him into coming out, remembers Shofner...
...Having embraced Sharon as a bold steward of his own "peace vision," President Bush is caught in an even deeper bind by Gaza because of the impact of Israeli actions there on perceptions of the U.S. elsewhere in the Arab world, particularly Iraq. The Rafah killings, twinned as they were in Thursday's news reports with unconfirmed claims that U.S. missiles had killed forty Iraqis at a wedding party in western Iraq, has undercut the Bush administration's best efforts to recover from the Arab-world PR disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency...
...reconstruction of Iraq, a year of occupation has done little to lay the political and institutional foundations for Iraqi democracy. The Iraqi Governing Council, the body handpicked by Bremer to represent Iraqis in a transition to democracy has failed to develop legitimacy, or even to function as an effective steward of a transition process. A year later, the U.S. - this time with help from the UN - is looking to reboot a more clearly scripted transition, with firm deadlines, by appointing a new caretaker body. And the liberal constitution brokered by U.S. officials has been rejected by the country's most...