Word: surefootedness
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Bush has compared the decision about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to a decision to commit troops to battle. This is biology spilled down a slippery slope; the arguments divide and subdivide and seemed to promise only injury to a rookie President not known for taking on the...
But in an administration still finding its feet - and not yet equipped with a China policy or team when the crisis broke - it was a remarkably poised performance. The China standoff, of course, is not quite over, and the hawks who were forced to keep their sabers sheathed to speed...
The Oklahoma City bombing was when Clinton really became the President. He was steeled by the need to stand up to the venomous elements of hatred in the country that erupted there. This drove home to him the seriousness, the stakes of this business that we're in. It changed...
The CD's title (Joao, Voice and Guitar) says it all--in Brazilian. For his first solo album in nearly a decade, the master of bossa nova opts for stripped-down simplicity. In these 10 songs (which include such Antonio Carlos Jobim-penned standards as Chega de Saudade and Desafinado...
With his nuanced and elegant responses to challenges posed by Deheisha and Yad Vashem, it seemed briefly that the Pope might have a true knack for parsing the Holy Land's distressing riddles. But by that evening the region once more manifested its ability to humble even the most high...