Word: angela
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...constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis - and the least maternal of the Boatwright brood...
...financial assistance, Tuesday's repeat came as those measures were backed up by actual figures in both Europe and the U.S. In Paris on Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged $488 billion to underwrite loans between banks and inject capital into troubled banks and financial groups. Similarly, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said up to $651 billion would be used for similar uses - though primarily limited to underwriting lending between banks. Austria, Spain and the Netherlands weighed in with similar plans under a coordinated euro-zone strategy that some analysts have pegged as adding up to as much as $2 trillion...
This institutional problem pales beside the political one: when crisis strikes, Europe almost never acts like a true union. After French President Nicolas Sarkozy summoned the leaders of Britain, Germany and Italy to Paris on Oct. 4, German Chancellor Angela Merkel coolly torpedoed his proposed $409 billion Europe-wide financial rescue plan. No money for the greedy fools of other lands, she seemed to say, only to then guarantee German private bank accounts and save Hypo Real Estate. That followed similar moves by Ireland and Greece. And Britain's Gordon Brown will always be loath to see Brussels...
...lesson begins with a surprise: the instructor announces that partners will be mixed together randomly, and two seconds later a quick and confident woman named Angela has split us up. She is unfazed by our attempt to scare her off by saying it’s our first lesson...
...European governments can certainly talk the talk of coordination. Following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We both agree that Europeans of course need to display a coherent course of action." President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, read on television a common statement from all 27 members pledging to adopt "all necessary measures to protect the stability of the financial system...