Word: casting
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...people look back on ten years later and regret. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't steal anything. I didn't wreck any cars. It was a good time, plain and simple." When his favorite bar in Baltimore decided to shoot a TV commercial, MacDonald recalls being perfectly cast for the part: "a big fat guy who sat around and drank a lot - I was a natural choice...
...record 65% of eligible Venezuelan voters turned up to cast ballots in fiercely contested state and regional elections on Nov. 23. Candidates opposed to leftist President Hugo Chávez won the coveted mayor's post in Caracas as well as governorships in three key states, bringing their total to five and prompting boasts that Chávez's popularity was waning following a failed 2007 bid to extend his presidency. Chávez's Socialist Party remained in control of 17 states, however, which his supporters said reaffirmed Venezuelans' confidence in his leadership...
...managing editor last year. He is also a member of Harvard Right to Life. His running mate is Alexandra A. Petri ’10, who is co-president of the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society. and a Crimson columnist “Roger is hoping to cast the UC process in a more humorous light.” said Petri, “One of our main concerns is pulling the joke vote.” The other ticket is led by a senior, Michael C. Koenigs ’09, who served as the president of Harvard-Radcliffe...
...abbreviated appearance of Mr. Gregg Gillis, the tiny engineering student behind the pseudo-copyright-infringing Wizard of Oz that is Girl Talk, still seems to cast something of a pathetic pall over the whole weekend for many participants. A glance at the Crimson archives reveals that this stricken reaction to the rally’s collapse is actually more striking than the collapse itself—given that the odds of success were so extremely...
...candidate of only wanting the PS leadership job to lock up the party's standard-bearing spot in the 2012 race to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy. Though beaten narroely for the top Socialist post, Royal shouldn't be expected to knuckle under to Aubry's expectedly tight rule, nor cast off her 2012 presidential ambitions. (See pictures of Sarkozy's trip to London...