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...career in Washington, perhaps because she rarely does. Any mention of three decades serving three Presidents and thawing Lean Cuisine for husband Senator Bob Dole at their Watergate apartment is drowned out by her frequent recital of local credentials in aresurgent drawl: her 1994 North Carolinian of the Year award, her degree from Duke and, of course, her mother, whose house she recently bought, making Dole the best kind of North Carolinian, a landowner. "My roots are deep. I've been here constantly," she says constantly, as if being graded on attendance...
...film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage boys, a cult figure on college campuses and a punch line for dismissive film critics. Punch-Drunk Love--for which Anderson received a best-director award at Cannes--is making the dumb-and-dumber Sandler persona seem smart and smarter...
...post in the new government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in July 2001. Bulgaria was engulfed in a wave of nostalgia-tinged optimism inspired by the new Prime Minister - also the country's former child King. Within a year, the party's ratings had plummeted; Veltchev's decision to award a contract to reform Bulgaria's corruption-plagued customs service to a British firm - without open bidding - prompted calls for his resignation and a no-confidence vote in the government. Veltchev's explanation: "We solicited other proposals. We just shortened the process to save time, because we were losing...
Peck endowed the award to inspire public participation in democracy by honoring those involved with the presidency, said Anne Christiansen, public information officer of the National Portrait Gallery...
...Along with the innovation award program, we’re working on research and a creating global resource network,” Rizvi said. “So anyone working on goverment innovation will find this a resource center...