Its Web site boasts of "many influential products," an "uncounted number of men of unexampled distinction," and Annan of course is first among them.
Yet the boasts of many fans striding into the stadiums suggest that fate still rewards those who have chutzpah and flair.
The average billing rate for the top 100 firms was $276 an hour, also assuming 2,200 billable hours, which is a high total despite the boasts of many lawyers that they work far more than that.
When it comes to self-criticism in the established press, Jonathan Shainin, an American-born editor at The Caravan, told me, it's "almost like an omertà." Journalism in India can boast of many successes.
Windows isn't foolproof in this area, but it has a leg up on Linux because it is easier to install, has a friendlier interface and can boast of many more desktop applications.
Lori Senecal oversees an ad agency that can boast of many iconic campaigns, from the Snapple Lady to Targets Bullseye. Since joining in 2009, she has helped client BMW reintroduce The Ultimate Driving Machine. Previously, she served as president of the New York office of McCann Erickson, where she worked on major brands, including Xbox and Coca-Cola.
He boasts of his many sexual conquests, and he sings the praises of his own beauty: his Greek profile, his heroic height, his sensual lips.
In another Palestinian camp, outside Sidon, a port south of Beirut, where the regular Lebanese army dares not go, a bearded Sunni bomb-maker boasts of how many times he has travelled to Iraq to wage jihad.But Tripoli has been the hub.
"We admit only the most over-scheduled children and we boast of how many sports they play, how many clubs they organize, how many hours of volunteer service they provide," said Elaine Hansen, president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Me., in her inaugural address two years ago.
Not many clubs can boast of so many eager applicants lining up outside their doors.Despite this, the mood across the EU is hardly one of elation; it is more of gloom.
TOKYO — Japan has long boasted of having many of the world's oldest people — testament, many here say, to a society with a superior diet and a commitment to its elderly that is unrivaled in the West.
