Word: tempering
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...backlash can be felt in the rise of left-wing politicians vowing to temper market coldheartedness with old-fashioned protections for workers and the poor. Erstwhile radicals like Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 56, fiery head of Brazil's Workers Party, are running on rejection of "the Washington Consensus," as the capitalist reforms have come to be called...
...more difficult at the beginning. For example, learning to be more respectful and obedient in the music room made me a little shy around him outside. Because I was so young, he had to tailor the way he taught me. He used to have a pretty bad temper with students, and he had to really soften that with...
...Igloolik live two brothers: Amaqjuaq (Pakkak Innukshuk), the strong one, and Atanarjuat (Natar Ungalaaq), the speedy one. Theirs might be a frostily idyllic existence, except that an evil spirit has infected Igloolik's ruling family. The family's young bull, Oki (Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq), has Sonny Corleone's temper and Fredo's sense of grudging inferiority. Oki's sister Puja (Lucy Tulugarjuk) is the local vamp, an Arctic Circle Circe. She gets under the sealskins of our brother heroes and stirs up a steaming pot of mischief...
...calm seemed to settle over Padilla after he came out of jail in late 1992. Maybe he had aged out of petty crime, or maybe his girlfriend, Cherie Maria Stultz, had helped him control his temper. At a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla., Padilla and Stultz found jobs with and a mentor in the restaurant's manager, Mohammad Javed, a Pakistani immigrant. "They were poor but trying to make something of their lives--buy a car, establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists...
...championships - and those he dished out, from "jerk" (very mild) to the more customary "f_____g a_____e." Fiery. In your face. Explosively perfectionistic. That was McEnroe then, and that's still McEnroe now. Maturity - and anger-management therapy - have mellowed the 43-year-old tennis great's legendary temper, but still, he says, "there's probably times every day where I feel like I lose control." Judging by his new memoir, Serious (Little, Brown; 352 pages) - the title alludes to his catchphrase, "You cannot be serious" - the subject of his wrath nowadays isn't an umpire or an obnoxious...