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...land the 2012 Games. Learning from previous failed bids when Paris was painted as arrogant and pushy, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe had opted for modesty, letting Paris's Olympic merits speak for themselves. The failure of that approach in the face of full-court lobbying by the British left him bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon...
...activist groups that will carry the nomination fight to the public, the name of the game is hit early and often. Conservatives still remember their bitter and unsuccessful 1987 fight over Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, when they were caught off guard by Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America...
...Anthony Kennedy: Following on the tail of a bitter congressional battle over unsuccessful Reagan nominees Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy was confirmed easily in 1988. A moderate who often helps Rehnquist build necessary compromises, Kennedy tends to examine each case on an individual basis, and seems uninterested in making larger political statements...
Brutally Beaten. Though the FBI declined to admit it, the break apparently came after agents offered to pay $25,000 for inside information. And "somebody," as one bitter Philadelphian put it, "finally went and opened up." The informant, whoever it was, knew what he was talking about. The federal men had to dig only one hole to find the bodies. Schwerner and Goodman had each been shot through the heart with a single .38-caliber bullet. Chaney had three slugs in his body and, according to an unofficial autopsy, had been brutally beaten. "In my 25 years as a pathologist...
Sarah (Marlee Matlin) is not officially a student. She is a graduate who has her own bitter reasons for staying on campus, doing menial work, instead of rejoining the world. If anything, the abuses she once suffered make her more vulnerable and touching. Yet she never seems pathetic, not as played by Matlin, who is a beautiful young woman and an actress of awesome gifts. Spotted playing a minor role in a Chicago revival of the play, she has an unusual talent for concentrating her emotions--and an audience's--in her signing. But there is something more here...