Word: footedly
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...born. "Everyone says I had a really strong Southern accent," she sighs. "I'm so bummed I lost it." She is self-deprecating about her experiences in the world of the powerful. Writing about Gore's second Inaugural in Slate, she described Chuck Berry stepping on her foot and how all the party tenting made her house look like the death scene in E.T. When she went off to Spain after college in 1995 to work on a newspaper there, she declined to use a car that had been found for her at a good price; she chose to live...
...both an ethnicity and a religion, but the most prominent Jews in American life usually embody the former quality more than the latter. Jewish senators like Barbara Boxer or Charles E. Schumer '71 rarely quote from Chronicles, or any part of the Bible. Seinfeld, Kramer and Elaine never set foot in a synagogue. There are few rabbis or religious Jews who enter public debates with the forcefulness of Jerry Falwell or Cardinal O'Connor. But Lieberman is different: His most memorable political moments, his campaign against Hollywood indecency and his condemnation of President Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, were clearly...
...Each side aims squintingly at the other and fires like Teddy Roosevelt trying to hit the wild white goat in western Montana at 300 yards. The trick is not to shoot ourselves in the collective foot...
...opponent would be Ann Richards, who had managed in 1988 to take the poisonous cartoon of the Bushes and serve it up to a national audience. "Poor George," she had cooed at the Democratic National Convention in 1988, "he can't help it...he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." The old man had spent his life trying to shake the Greenwich out of his cowboy boots, but W. had already immunized himself. He was a real Texan, and he had the squint to prove it. Bush won with 53% of the vote...
Today, as director of the Novartis Research Foundation's new Genomics Institute, Schultz is boning up on genetics. But he also keeps one foot planted in pure science. His lab at the Scripps Research Institute, where he starts his day by 5 a.m., uses combinatorial methods to study everything from nanotechnology to organ regeneration. His scientists have invented 80 new amino acids and used them to make proteins seen nowhere in nature, and they are trying to create an artificial bacterium with two extra bases in its DNA and five unnatural amino acids in its proteins. "The question is," says...