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...cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have. "Erik is mentally one of the strongest guys you will ever meet," says fellow climber Chris Morris...
...cuddliness is the trait that keeps him from seeming smarmy. A politician who comes across as having schoolmarmish intelligence without a humanizing mushy center can have an abbreviated career. We all want a bright leader but one also equipped with an enormous heart. Whether Chen has that is a matter of some debate. Even his wife accuses him of being a purely sectarian animal, of having traded family for his political future. "He's a great politician," she says, "but a terrible father...
...cuddliness is the trait that keeps him from seeming smarmy. "He is a political leader with charisma," says a former Cabinet minister. "He knows how to speak the people's language." For a politician to come across as having school-marmish intelligence without the humanizing mushy center can mean an abbreviated career. People don't want their elementary-school principal running the country?he was bad enough when he was just running your school. We all want a bright leader, but one also equipped with an enormous heart. Whether Chen has that is a matter of some debate. Even...
...feel rotten most of the time by a certain age, you're always gonna feel lousy . . ." The rest of the piece boils down to a long explanation for why Haspiel was asked to draw the strip. Yes, it's completely self-reflexive and self-involved, another Pekar trait. Basically you like it if you like Pekar...
...reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge...