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...over the Corner Office in a State House otherwise overflowing with Democrats. In fact it was two Democrats, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who administered the oath of office to Romney and Lt. Governor Kerry Murphy Healy ’82 before a backdrop of other state-wide elected officials, also all Democrats...
...want to be as a person--the pursuit of courtesy, chivalry and proper behavior." "There's a heavy anti-industrial streak there," agrees Carrie Crowder, 41, a conservative Republican, mother of two and former S.C.A. member. "It's tied back to the medieval, feudal landscape that is the backdrop for so much of fantasy." Granted, the S.C.A. crowd is a good deal further out on the fringe than most people who will shell out to see The Two Towers, but as John Adcox, 38, a fantasy fan in Atlanta, points out, it's all relative. "If I told you about...
...Rawls wrote A Theory of Justice and it was a truly extraordinary achievement both for its intrinsic merit and because it was written against a kind of backdrop of a kind of wasteland in the field,” Cohen said...
...also feel supremely gratified that Eliot House was the backdrop used while showing Harvard stats, further proving that I live in the most beautiful housing on campus. Hey, Lowell, who’s got the better tower...
...successors to Jiang Zemin and Co. chosen this week rose through a deliberate, meritocratic process of promotion that favors skillful politician-administrators. Yet the final list of the Party leadership was settled against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle comprising backroom lobbying and furtive corruption investigations that continued till the last possible moment. Modern information technology and a windy propaganda blitz coexist with the utmost secrecy about everything that matters: who will be elected to lead the country, how they got where they are, and what they stand...