Word: gracious
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...gracious host would throw the match, but Fukuda might want to think twice before dropping his paddle: a display of national athletic prowess against an old rival might be just the tonic he needs to revive his moribund prime ministership. Since taking over from the hapless administration of Shinzo Abe in September 2007, Fukuda's team has managed to look even more inept and out of touch than Abe's on issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled...
What is Michelle Obama like, and do you think she would make a good First Lady? -Zach Mohler, BALTIMOREShe came and spoke at the Women's Conference, where we had all the candidates' spouses come together. I found her to be very gracious, smart, funny, irreverent...
...reigning Hollywood Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail. In movie terms it was an unfair fight, because Moore had the heavier artillery: not his arguments, necessarily, but his camera and the power of an editor over an actor...
...Picture Perfect? I was disappointed that analyses of Obama's losses mentioned hubris as a reason for his defeats [March 17]. For all the bile that has been flung at Clinton alleging her presumption, she has shown herself to be a gracious leader; Obama has shown himself to be a mollycoddle. Nadia El-Badry, Dobbs Ferry, New York...
...find everyone to be warm and gracious, and the faculty is certainly quite welcoming,” said Loren J. Metzger-Marcus, mother of Alexander W. Marcus ’09. “It’s been wonderful to get a slice out of our son?...