Word: wiseness
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...text messages, nuance is almost impossible. And since text and e-mail flirting can be done without having to look people in the eye, and is often done with speed, it is bolder, racier and unimpeded by moments of reflection on whether the message could be misconstrued or is wise to send at all. "Flirt texting is a topic everyone finds fascinating, although not much research is out there yet," says Abbey. But one thing is clear: "People are often more willing to disclose intimate details via the Internet, so the process may escalate more quickly...
...awards show. That's the Golden Globes when it's in full, fulsome flower. For one night, the TV viewer gets up-front gawking privileges, a chance to see George and Johnny and Julia and Jodie act, not like actors, but like movie stars - looking great, cracking wise, radiating celestial glamour. That's why the Golden Globes is the third-highest-rated of these annual bashes, after the Oscars and the Grammys...
...past is conflicted out of this one. Bill Clinton's comment that the Obama campaign - or Obama's Iraq war position, depending on who you believe - was "a fairy tale" makes it impossible for him to play that role here. It's going to take some rare and wise soul to sort this one out - both candidates ought to get on the phone to liberal evangelist Jim Wallis, who knows their hearts well and hosted them both in a forum about faith last summer...
...find this case from a certain defense attorney who became a special prosecutor who defended a car company after they had hidden the fact that they discussed whether or not 400 lives a year was worth recalling 20 million cars or not. They decided that, profitability-wise they could take the loss of the class action suit. A piece of paper, an interoffice memo was kept away from the judge and the defense for something like, three or four circuit courts. These things do exist, these people do exist, this did come from a basis of reality...
...Hampshire was especially Clinton country, full of veterans of battles at her side going back to the day 16 years ago when together they helped breathe life into Bill Clinton's presidential ambitions. All weary and wise, all steeped in the hard work of small steps, they had no time for the airy (they said empty) hope Obama was peddling; it was as if it diminished everything they'd fought for so long, the way he made it sound easy, as though if only we were more polite to one another, all our problems would just sort themselves...