Word: touche
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...Another Reagan touch: more jelly beans...
...people to stay on Facebook—that’s why they don’t make it easy to leave,” said Talal M. Alhammad ’11, a native of Saudi Arabia who added that the networking site allows him to keep in touch with most of his friends back home. “If it weren’t for Facebook, I wouldn’t be in touch with half the people I’m in touch with now,” he said. Although permanently deleting one?...
...Trouble with Amy I applaud Josh Tyrangiel's defense of Amy Winehouse in his article "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. She is a rare talent, and her music is a wonderful combination of Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, with a little touch of Otis Redding thrown in. She would have been very much at home at Stax Records. It's troubling to read about Winehouse's high jinks in recent months. Despite her enormous gifts, she has inner demons and struggles. However, I still root for her because, as is evident on Back to Black, Winehouse is aware of them...
...talk, or not talk, for hours,” says Walsh jokingly with a tender touch to O’Keefe’s arm. After being pried off one another, the Romeos assessed just how close all those hours of chitchat and bodily communication had brought them...
...French are quite in touch with their hatred of capitalism, but they hardly remember France’s original sin with financial markets. Back in 1719, in what became the first modern bubble (and bust), John Law single-handedly obliterated the incipient Parisian stock market. Once a penniless gambler, the rogue Law became part of the King’s court and eventually rose to Controller-General of Finances. He achieved control of the central bank, most money-issuing mints, the national debt, the collection of indirect taxes, and the largest player in the market, the Company of the Indies...