It had been more than six months since he last played in an N.B.A. game, but Howard Eisley refused to let fear or the thought of being unprepared creep into his mind.
Or, at least, when I meet Natalia for the first two times – unprepared, in a rush, my mind on other things – I just can't really process what she tells me, can't quite compute it.
She calls herself a 'hack' but minds acutely when other journalists are unprepared to let her escape their camp.
Paul Krugman is talking through his hat when he claims that the Cato Institute is unprepared to explain Social Security transition costs or how the reformed system would work ("Kansas on My Mind," column, Feb. 25).
Which leaves her totally unprepared for a return to an academy populated with the Daily Show generation: bright young minds with a very critical attitude towards the last eight years.
But the idea that the voters of the United States might install someone in the vice president's office who is too unprepared or too intellectually insecure to appear on, say, "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation" is mind-boggling.
Israel was caught unprepared.
I was totally unprepared.
