Word: tenderize
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...Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, is generally acknowledged to be an ambitious policy whiz kid. An Ivy League-educated Rhodes Scholar, he was appointed head of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the state's largest agency, at the tender age of 24. At 28, he was tapped to head one of Louisiana's university systems. Two years later, he served in the Bush Administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. He first ran for governor in 2003 at the age of 32, losing by a mere four percentage points to current...
...tender ages of many of the competitors belied the championship's accessibility. Both six-year-old Daniel Hop and 64-year-old Grada Ooms, members of the Netherlands' team, traveled to Budapest in an attempt to qualify and compete. Like many others, innate ability propelled Hop and Ooms, respectively the youngest and oldest competitors in the 2007 championships, to the sport's most prestigious tournament. Ooms solved her first cube only six months ago whilst young Hop has been cubing for only a year...
First, let's talk about the sex. There's a lot of it in Ang Lee's new film, Lust, Caution: sweaty, acrobatic coupling that is, by turns, brutish and tender. And the camera doesn't shy away from any panting detail. Explicit even by today's standards, the movie works hard to earn the adults-only NC-17 rating it has been given in the U.S. Shooting the scenes was so exhausting that Lee and his cast could only work half-days. On one occasion, lead actress Tang Wei fainted...
...convince themselves that fatherhood is all right--and the movie's happy ending is the least plausible thing about it. One show at least managed to capture the tension: What were those seven seasons of The Sopranos about if not a man fighting to reconcile the tender pangs of a caring, new-style father with the old-school masculine ideals of violence and stoicism--not to mention the psychological damage wreaked on him by his own old-school father...
...harbor while visiting such places as Monaco. Then again, staying aboard can be appealing. Many yachts are outfitted with gyms, pools and movie theaters. Feel free to invite friends, as most sleep 12. Guests on the 153-ft. (47 m) Argyll can use its 24-ft. (7 m) tender or kayaks to explore the coast in places like the Exumas in the Bahamas. "If you put your hand out, a drink will be in it," says Jill Bobrow, editor of Showboats International...