The Swiss know that, however lazy or corrupt or incompetent or arrogant politicians may be elsewhere, they can cut their own ones down to size.
Winning teaches you how to win well (without gloating or getting arrogant) and losing teaches you how to lose well (without whining or blaming).
On to other matters: were the EU leaders too ignorant or too arrogant when they designed the euro?
Enron's ex-CEO takes the stand to show he's not arrogant or guilty.
Anyone who claims to be an 'expert' on Africa - as if it were a homogenous region where simple rules apply - is either arrogant or just plain silly.
No doubt Darth Vader, or rather the arrogant teenager who ultimately grows up to be Darth Vader, is the man to beat, as 20th Century Fox, a division of News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ), releases Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
But after this trip I was either arrogant enough or careless enough to figure I could get away with it.
We size them up wondering if they are intelligent, arrogant, or likeable?
Valedictorians are sometimes almost sheepish about where they plan to go school, afraid to get labeled a nerd or worse, come across as intellectually arrogant for trumpeting an acceptance.
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"We are aware that a lack of communications...led to the perception that Apple is arrogant and doesn't care or attach enough importance to consumer feedback, " Mr. Cook said, according to the letter.
Or it could be Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), the otherworldly beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.
Or it can hope that the left in power will in time become as arrogant as the right was before it, and offer the right a role as a fresh pair of safe hands all over again.
Because nobody likes an arrogant know-it-all who thinks they are better than other employees or who believes their previous company did things better.
The man who did most to make economists and politicians arrogant - to make them think they could bend the world to their will - also gave them, or ought to have given them, the very best reasons for self-doubt.
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