Word: tanned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trademark tan has dimmed, and his voice softens when he recounts the tumultuous events surrounding his downfall as a corporate titan. But if former Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier no longer boasts the "master of the world" moniker, don't expect to find him repudiating his stint as an empire-building media tycoon either. "I still receive e-mails and get stopped in the street by young people saying 'You gave me the desire to form my own company,'" says Messier...
...marriage. Michelle E. Oboite ’08 discussed a relative who has undergone female circumcision, who Oboite said views it as a cultural practice that “doesn’t demean her as a woman.” Other audience members were not convinced. Katherine Y. Tan ’10 said that the discussion group should not “exoticize the issue” by attributing it solely to cultural practices. Other discussion members cited health problems related to the practice of female circumcision. It can lead to problems with childbirth and menstruation, several said...
...written about him. And a book. And a screenplay. He gave radio interviews in Moscow. Nevertheless, in the 1990s, there were few known photographs of him. In 2003, however, he agreed to an interview with the New York Times Magazine and stood for a portrait dressed in a nappy tan suit. In the interview, Bout tried to paint himself as a hard-working entrepreneur, vegetarian and nature lover who just happened to spend a lot of time flying into African conflict zones...
...realize the signs of consumption, and even though it has been erradicated one cannot be too careful. There is nothing like a mandated stay in a Swiss sanitorium to ruin one’s presidential ambitions.Reccomendation: Buy a flannel waist coat.Mitt RomneyMitt Romney, on the other hand, is really tan. His is a tan not found in nature. It is a tan that I, in fact, most recently saw Paris Hilton sporting at the premiere of her new film “The Hottie and the Nottie.” It is, in short, not real, and it needs...
...Veltroni, 52, on the other hand, is a lifelong politico who talks about Italy's need to be "reasonable" and "pragmatic." He was Vice Premier in Prodi's first government from 1996 to 1998, before moving over to run the capital. Pale and bespectacled, next to the ever-tan, ever-spiffy Berlusconi, the Rome mayor has high-culture tendencies and a book-writing hobby; he has written an earnest novel and a biography of a little-known jazz musician. Veltroni even gets a mention in Ian McEwan's best-selling novel Saturday...