Word: sharpness
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...There’s enormous parity [between the teams],” agreed Harvard coach David Fish ’72. “They’re really strong, and those teams are really going to battle, and we’re going to really have to be sharp...
With this kind of forward-looking initiative, Kerry could draw a sharp contrast between himself and his short-sighted rival, and begin to define his campaign. While Kerry has been soul searching, Dubya has tried to brand him as a “flip-flopper.” (This from the man who told us four years ago, “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called ‘nation-building’.”) Kerry ought to fight back with a moniker fit for Bush...
...most Iraqis - 71 percent according to the Gallup poll - see them as occupiers. U.S. officials and officers in Iraq are now under orders to do what they can to explain to Iraqis with whom they come in contact what has transpired. But the damage may be irreversible - and the sharp decline in Iraqi consent for a continued U.S. presence raises difficult questions for the transition. The U.S. has been planning to keep its troops in Iraq after the June 30 transfer of symbolic sovereignty to an as-yet undetermined Iraqi authority, and to eventually negotiate an agreement with...
...Audette's CAVEMAN DIET doesn't involve carb or calorie counting or any peculiar formulas but instead urges wannabe Paleolithic dieters to ask one simple question: Could I eat this if I were naked with a sharp stick on the savanna? That guiding principle rules out grains, beans, potatoes, dairy, sugar and virtually all processed foods. --By Julie Rawe
...most part, Indians are more successful behind the camera than in front of it. M. Night Shyamalan made the megahits The Sixth Sense and Signs. Mira Nair, director of Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding, is making an Indian-infused take on Vanity Fair, with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp. And Nair has a three-film slate for her company, International Bhenji Brigade, financed by an Indian businessman...