Word: deftly
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...Singer's deft diagnosis came courtesy of a medical newsletter, one of a burgeoning arsenal published for consumers. The nation's top 10 consumer health newsletters reach more than 4.4 million subscribers, many of them older, educated women hungry for reliable, understandable sources that sort through the daily onslaught of unevaluated health information. Singer buys Cornell University's Women's Health Advisor, as well as Nutrition Action Healthletter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Health After 50. "At my age, your body has all kinds of surprise quirks," explains Singer...
...trots through the tales of 40 years in public service ranging from Deputy Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson to Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. What makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...
What might have been a competent formulaic romance earns an added luster in A Student of Weather (Counterpoint; 368 pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly...
...denied by Wahid's backroom maneuvering. Although his own Islamic party commands only 10 percent of the seats in parliament, Wahid managed to shut her out with the support of a number of smaller Muslim parties and the party of the former dictator Suharto - and then showed a deft political touch by bringing her in as vice president in order to defuse the anger of her supporters on the streets outside...
...Wahid may have proved a deft manipulator of the complex backroom machinations that pervade Indonesian politics, but in the end he was simply a compromise figure sufficiently acceptable to the nation's political, business and military elites to preside over a temporary equilibrium. Now that the students are back on the streets, the currency and stock market are in the doldrums, the provinces are restive, the military is fidgety and the political sharks have smelled blood, the Wahid equilibrium may have been shattered...