Word: trait
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...longer than most people think." President Bush is not normally thought of as a patient man. But his dad was (it was nearly six months from the invasion of Kuwait to the start of the Gulf War). Who knows? Maybe patience will turn out to be a Bush family trait too. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, John F. Dickerson/Washington, and J.F.O. McAllister/London, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
True or false? The Aniston-Pitt marriage is on the rocks; he's a homebody, and she prefers parties and premieres. "False," says Aniston. "What's fun about a premiere?" Aniston's most endearing trait may be that she's wholly lacking in movie-star pretension. She and Pitt are frequently spotted hanging out in L.A., easygoing and accessible, without an entourage or phalanx of bodyguards. They are often trailed by a photographer, but she doesn't gripe about the press. Not usually, anyway. Aniston recently settled--"amicably"--a lawsuit against two magazine publishers for running topless photos...
...gonna do this time..." During a break, Springsteen bounds out into the house seats. He thinks the pace of the band's learning curve is fine. He is happy to be playing with his old friends. But he is also not satisfied. "If I have a good trait, it's probably relentlessness," he says. "I'm a hound dog on the prowl. I can't be shook...
...time, I have also been slightly shamed by instinctive fear of my countrymen from the South. The closest I had previously come to prolonged exposure to groups of southerners was spending time with my New Mexican relatives, who are mostly crazy, which I had thought was just a family trait. For example, one of my uncles once visited me in Cambridge and, when we were deciding where to go to dinner, announced that he would not eat “boogers and sticks.” He was referring to Asian food. I found Washington to be much further south...
Lewis truly does reply to all e-mail he receives—and though it is not his most apparent trait, he does have a sense of humor. Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekend magazine, reprinted an e-mail he sent to a Yale student last November in response to an inquiry titled “bitch ass harvard...