Word: bloodthirst
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...chief Anna Wintour. Her ubiquitous sunglasses and the withering glare behind them provided fodder for “The Devil Wears Prada,” a book and major motion picture centered on an unnecessarily cruel caricature of a boss—one part business savvy, three parts bloodthirst. Yet “The September Issue” showcases a witty, driven businesswoman with a demanding work ethic, not unlike that of Cutler himself.“My training was fairly intensive,” Cutler recalls of his involvement in the arts at Harvard during the 80s. Working towards...
...While real-life aerial battles have dominated the headlines, China's university students are playing out their own version of Sino-American relations on the computer screen. Their video-game bloodthirst reflects a surging patriotism among Chinese youth and an increasing frustration with perceived American arrogance. "After the Soviet Union fell, the U.S. thought it could do anything," says Zhang Lian, a freshman at prestigious Peking University. "We Chinese have the responsibility to tell them...