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Like any photo shoot, we did a lot of different stuff. But it was just Farrah and myself. It was before the days where you had to have stylists and hair and makeup and background art directors and assistants. It was just me and Farrah and my Nikon, at the home she shared with Lee Majors, a house on Mulholland Drive overlooking Hollywood, with a beautiful view...
...hasn't lived that life." It is entirely possible for two jurists to arrive at an identical conclusion in a case, yet if one of them has considered more options and deliberated more over the issues, that jurist will have made the "wiser, more informed" decision. Sotomayor's background will automatically strengthen her consideration of legal issues--something that will escape some other jurist who has not had the experience of being a minority. Kerman Bharucha, WEBSTER...
...said on Sunday. So why has Europe, so often cast as the more timid side of the transatlantic partnership, responded more vigorously this time? The answer, according to Robin Niblett, director of the London-based international-relations think tank Chatham House, lies in the low-rumbling crisis in the background of the disputed election: Iran's nuclear program. (See five reasons to suspect Iran's election results...
Goforth, Sherri • regret is expressed by, not for sending out a racist email - a collage of images of the 44 presidents with Obama represented by a pair of white eyes against a black background - but merely for sending it out to the wrong list of people...
...Nanoscale Systems, where his most visible responsibility will be the far-from-nano task of reducing the center's $6.1 million budget by as much as 20 percent while seeking to maintain the quality of its research opportunities. Colleagues praised Spaepen both for his administrative experience and his background as a material scientist. “I think he enjoyed being head of [Harvard's] Rowland Institute, but he has sort of a sense of duty and responsibility to make things work well,” said Applied Physics Professor Robert M. Westervelt. “It can get kind...