Word: sum
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...last point I completely agree with. Since 9/11, I have regularly gotten calls from very smart, talented people who intend to join the CIA. Competing against their résumés, I would never make the cut today. So I'll split the difference and help the CIA figure out how to keep a new generation from running for the door like...
...many words go into an event like the Democratic party convention? They're flakes in a blizzard - a few hit you, and the rest blow by in a blur. Amid that blizzard there was one perfect word, early in Barack Obama's virtuoso acceptance speech, to sum up the thrust of the entire storm...
...five-month stretch in 1949-50, Manny was employed as Time's Cinema critic. After The Nation and The New Republic, a Time stint meant a sharp raise in pay (he was hired at an annual salary of $8,500, a hefty sum back then) but a likely loss in status among the intellectuals whose favor he craved. He may have thought his work for the magazine was beneath his standard; Negative Space includes no Time reviews. I had guessed that the gig was painful, that editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving...
...After the final block, McCutcheon shook hands with Russia's coach, Vladimir Alekno, then stood alone while his players celebrated. "This team represents what's good about team sports," he said, when asked what American fans who have not followed his team's run might be missing. "The sum of our parts are much greater than the individual aspects. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. There's a lot of unity and strength to this group. I don't know if that's of any interest to Americans, but that's what they're missing...
...true that Obama doesn't have a thick record of businesses he has built or governments he has run. For one thing, he has moved around too much. The restlessness in his résumé is striking: two years at Occidental College, two years at Columbia University, a year in business, three years as a community organizer and then law school. Obama's four two-year terms in the Illinois state senate are his version of permanence, but in two of those terms, he was busy running for higher office...