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...this way. In part it was just his personality, drawn much more, they all say, from his mom than his dad. "I'm quick with the quip," he says now. "Dad gives me advice when I ask him for it, my mom when I don't. She can be blunt, like me. My dad's always gracious." But you can also make the case that if his father didn't exactly have a normal childhood, neither did W. The death of his three-year-old sister Robin in 1953, when he was seven, has been seen as one source...
...roll up our sleeves." He makes no pretense to his father's stature as statesman, although he does not lack for opinions. He criticizes Europeans for seeing North Africans as terrorists, and when asked if he is satisfied with U.S. economic support, his answer is, "Absolutely not." He is blunt about Morocco's relations with Algeria, which he cites for prolonging the dispute over the Western Sahara. The King refuses to take part in a meeting that simply becomes "a contest on who will speak the loudest." Yet he is not above praising Algeria's President for his sense...
LEVY: Let me be blunt: I think you need ruthless leadership that is prepared to tackle really ancient problems of management in order to get the best teachers teaching those who are less able to get performance out of students. I have intentionally used the language of management for the reason that I think it evokes a whole different response. If you've got branches or distant offices that don't work well, you put your strongest managers there. In this industry--if I can call it that--we do the opposite. We take our youngest teachers, our weakest managers...
...your-local-Congressperson offensive, can be witty. "And it seems like the media immediately/points a finger at me/so I point one back at them/but not the index or pinky," he raps on one of the album's best cuts, the gruff The Way I Am. Eminem is also fearlessly blunt at times, cruelly deriding the talents of the hottest pop stars. "Don't get me started/these f_______ brats can't sing," he raps about the boy band 'N Sync. "And Britney's garbage/What--is this bitch retarded...
...enemies in the state GOP and fewer problems with Republicans in upstate New York, where Giuliani was almost as much of a carpetbagger from Manhattan as Clinton is from Washington. Lazio backed Newt Gingrich, but also has a moderate record on family leave and abortion rights, which will blunt some of Clinton's attacks on him as a lockstep GOP party man. Pooley says the race may well depend on which vote is bigger: pro-Hillary or anti-Hillary. "There may be a ceiling to Clinton's numbers, which didn't get past 45 percent or so even when Giuliani...