Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken, let's admit it's dysfunctional, and let's do something dramatically different, and let's do it now. But don't just tinker around the edges. Don't just play with it. Let's fix the thing...
Shaquille O'Neal can do anything, as long as that thing is telling people he can do anything. On ABC's Shaq Vs., he challenges Super Bowl champ Ben Roethlisberger to a football game; baseball's home-run leader, Albert Pujols, to a batting contest; and gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh to beach volleyball. He insists he's the greatest athlete in the world, even though the only thing he beats them at is trash-talking. O'Neal plays sports the way George W. Bush fights wars...
...difference between confident and arrogant. I'm a humble person. I'm not going up against a fifth-grade writer. I'm going up against the man." For a moment, I truly believed that O'Neal knew who I was. And that he should try the acting thing again...
...worst thing that will ever happen to him is when he and I meet in the room and I close the door.' ROBERT BENMOSCHE, the new CEO of AIG, referring last month in a closed-door meeting to New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, who recently pressed Congress to release the names of the AIG employees receiving retention bonuses...
...Hollywood film producer, Dominick was a creature of parties and a confessed name-dropper. With his horn-rimmed glasses and wonderful suits, he personified the word dapper, but there was an almost impish quality about him too. He made friends with everybody and wanted to know about every little thing. The last time we spoke, he told me about being in a hospital with Farrah Fawcett and how brave she was. Even on his deathbed, his curiosity was insatiable...