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...verbal altercation took place Saturday at France's annual farmers' congress, where the president was rebuffed during a round of glad-handing by an older man, who said, "Don't touch me, you make me dirty." Visibly piqued, Sarkozy twice ordered the man to "bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Riling France's President | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...exhausted themselves and their vocal chords through the emotional roller coaster that was Super Bowl XLII, and by the fourth quarter even those originally indifferent could not help joining in and screaming at the television screen. At the beginning of the game, fans on opposing sides traded some light verbal insults while enjoying a slice of pizza and a cold beverage. But as it became apparent that what was supposed to be the logical finish to an historic season by the now-18-1 Patriots had morphed into an exhilarating back-and-forth battle, we focused...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giants Spoil Perfect Season | 2/4/2008 | See Source »

...know. I was caught off guard.) You're the fiftysomething guy behind me on the plane before Christmas telling his fortysomething seatmate how sensual her eyes were--actually, I hope you're not, because if so, you're really skeevy. My point is, once you move into the verbal phase of flirtation, it's pretty much all intentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Romance: Why We Flirt | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...bookish aspect of al-Hakim’s work presented a tremendous challenge to the cast and crew of “Shahrazad,” especially since al-Hakim’s brand of intellectualism contains few flashy verbal pyrotechnics or self-congratulatory cultural references. “Shahrazad” is measured, elliptical, and oblique...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Shahrazad’ Worth More Than a Thousand Words | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...state boasting of his tough approach to illegal immigration, McCain's Achilles' heel. Meanwhile McCain's strength, foreign policy experience, happens to be Huckabee's most glaring weakness. (In the run-up to Iowa, the silver-tongued Huckabee seemed to blow a fact or have a verbal slip whenever he tried to speak about the crisis in Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee Looks to South Carolina | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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