Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 9, 2012

Then, last Friday, she finally broached the subject with China’s senior foreign policy official, Dai Bingguo.

“I don’t want to talk to him anymore,” Cui Tiankai, the vice foreign minister, erupted after Mrs. Clinton intervened, gesturing toward Kurt M. Campbell, an assistant secretary of state and a crucial negotiator.

The confrontation was a pivotal moment in a diplomatic drama replete with unanticipated twists, threats and counterthreats, and at times comical intrigue.

The Americans were soon holding parallels sets of talks, with Mr. Campbell meeting with the Chinese and Mr. Locke and Mr. Koh effectively negotiating with a mercurial Mr. Chen.

In so doing, he was able to convey both the propulsive abandon and the pervasive melancholy of children’s interior lives.

In so doing, he was able to convey both the propulsive abandon and the pervasive melancholy of children’s interior lives.

As portrayed by Mr. Sendak, the wild things are deliciously grotesque: huge, snaggletoothed, exquisitely hirsute and glowering maniacally.

“In the Night Kitchen,” which depicts its young hero, Mickey, in the nude, prompted many school librarians to bowdlerize the book by drawing a diaper over Mickey’s nether region.

Mr. Mourdock, meanwhile, has said that bipartisanship has led the nation to the brink of bankruptcy, and that the nation’s current circumstances call for a time of confrontation, not collegiality.

He was required this year to change his voter registration to the farm his family has owned for years rather than the Indianapolis house he sold in 1977 — an episode that underscored how long he had been in Washington and, in the view of some, how tenuous his ties to Indiana now felt.