Word: teas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begrudge Pelosi her four-day "coronation," as right-wing wags have dubbed it? The events themselves are hardly ostentatious: there's a mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been...
...agenda" already entails suspending the gauzy promise of bipartisan civility that moderate Democrats ran on. Rather, the Democrats will use House rules to prohibit opposition measures - the exact sort of "tyranny of the majority" that the former minority party has been railing against for years. Whatever the stage set (tea or Mass), the week ahead will likely be less a coronation for Pelosi than a long, behind-the-scenes horse-trading auction...
...Qixia village chiefs unexpectedly showed up at our Beijing bureau in their new shirts. "There are some peasants to see you," an alarmed assistant announced. "They seem quite scared. You'd better come quickly." I returned to the office to find the men awkwardly clutching mugs of tea in their shaking hands. They updated me on some of the people I had interviewed for the story: Three, including Lin Zuoyun, who was sitting in my office, had been brutally beaten. Two were under house arrest. A third - Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote - had disappeared...
...likeable. A compact man, he sits erect and chops his hands in the air as he speaks. Welcoming all manner of guests, he'll hold court for hours in his house, which sits right outside the main U.S. base in Ramadi. Sittar makes sure his visitors are never without tea or a cigarette as he holds forth, talking about everything from guns to Isaac Newton. In a litany of the good and bad contributions of Western civilization, Sittar cites the English scientist ("smart" but "lazy") as one of the positive contributors; Hitler, he said, was unmitigatedly...
...economy of China's northeast. Beijing is currently constructing a fence along the border, but there is little expectation that this will be particularly effective. All of which means that Beijing will have little real option but to smile politely and play gracious host during the six-party talks. Tea anyone...