Keeping Cool in the Nuclear Heat

The practice of calmness, of immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down, Keynes wrote.

He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.

Jumping, and movements that require collection, are some of the more stressful activities.

The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.

Now I know that the number one rule to being cool is to seem unfazed, to never admit that anything scares you or impresses you or excites you.

As long as moderates keep their heads, a new Netherlands may be born out of the terrible events of the past weeks.

I mean, I'm wearing a tie, first. And then secondly, I'm a little bit nervous because I'm speaking in a foreign language, and I want to apologize in advance, for any mistakes I might make.

Her humanity and compassion are coupled with an acute sense of the iron discipline required for effective governance. These are the reflexes of an impeccable stateswoman.

CANBERRA Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a president who is cool, calm, and collected in a crisis except when there is a crisis.

I use spoken word to help my students rediscover wonder, to fight their instincts to be cool and unfazed and, instead, actively pursue being engaged with what goes on around them, so that they can reinterpret and create something from it.

In short, as long as China s government is not so unnerved by the slowdown in output growth that it changes its current policy stance, the current account surplus is more likely to continue to fall relative to GDP than it is to rebound in 2013 and thereafter.

After all, Richard Nixon s race against John Kennedy in 1960 is said to have been lost on television Kennedy looked cool and handsome, while Nixon scowled into the camera, with sweat trickling down his five o clock shadow.