Word: trumped
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...well as laughter. “The Apprentice in Bombay” pitted a team of Indians against a team of Indian-Americans in a battle for Trump’s affection, and jokes and jabs were served up equally against both teams, along with a number against Trump himself. The extreme nature of both teams served to highlight quirks and idiosyncrasies in both cultures, while Trump’s bumbling and stereotyping of the team members pointed out misconceptions on the part of other Americans...
...overall challenge for the Crimson will be to trump its recent history at Princeton and Penn. Last year was emblematic of Harvard’s fortunes—the team suffered an embarrassing 35-point loss to Penn at the Palestra, then traveled to Jadwin and fell in double overtime to the eventual league champions...
...European Low Fares Airline Association. Trade groups have lodged complaints with the European Court of Justice, which is expected to rule before the year is out. Until then, airlines will have to, well, wait. I Want My TV Auf Deutsch Forget Sex and the City and Donald Trump - what American TV viewers really crave is German-language programming, right? ProSiebenSat.1 Media, the German TV network controlled by U.S. media mogul Haim Saban, launches its first channel in the U.S. this week. The Welt channel will show movies, news, comedy and live matches from Germany's first division soccer league over...
...hold on affairs in Lebanon. There are certainly economic benefits for Syria to maintain control over its economically dynamic neighbor whose progress and integration into the world economy puts Syria's own decrepit economy to shame. But Lebanon's primary importance to Damascus is its value as a strategic trump card. The organizing principle of Syrian foreign policy over the past four decades has been to find ways of pressuring Israel to return the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since the war of 1967. Syria's presence in Lebanon, and particularly its support for the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, became...
...ones about consumerism, the ones about the necessity of being, as he puts it, "well liked." At the time, the fancier critics thought Willy lacked the noble stature for tragedy. But that's nonsense. We don't live in an Aristotelian age; we live in the age of Donald Trump. And Willy, trying to pass on his false values to his sons (and incidentally destroying them as a result), has become an ever more poignant, and prescient, figure...