Word: unflinchingness
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This brings us to the breaking news: yesterday’s implication of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in an upscale Washington prostitution ring. Spitzer’s downfall is particularly “tragic” in the Greek sense of the word: His meteoric...
How did she do it? In large part, Thatcher owes the size of the verdict to her handling of a colonial conflict on a sprinkle of islands 8,000 miles from home. Only a few months before the Argentines took the Falkland Islands in April of last year, the Prime...
Every year, as their peers send off a deluge of resumes to consulting firms, investment banks, and government bureaus, 500 to 600 students interested in pursuing careers in the arts, media and entertainment turn to Office of Career Services (OCS) Assistant Director Gail Gilmore. Gilmore frequently refers the students with...
So goes and ends Lil Bahadur Chettri's brief but unflinching 1957 Nepali fable Mountains Painted with Turmeric. Where did the family migrate to? Were they ever avenged? Chettri's novella - one of Nepal's most popular stories, reprinted 30 times in the country and now widely available for the...
Martin's tone is not cautious, exactly, but careful. The writing is evocative, unflinching and cool. When he takes a scalpel to his life, what you feel is the precision of the surgeon more than the primal scream of the unanesthetized patient. "My biggest fear," he says, "was that when...