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...Southerners, flamboyant or saturnine, came from another age. Hoey of North Carolina wore wing collars. Freshman John Kennedy of Massachusetts, thin and glamorous, the millionaire's dreamboat boy, hobbled at the rear of the chamber, on crutches from his back operation. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, remembered now as a dark cloud shadowing America, could show, in private, an unexpected sweetness and charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely...
...more than 200 members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce enjoyed a breakfast buffet at the Park Plaza Hotel, Summers presented the ideas that have become a cornerstone of his agenda since his arrival at Harvard—developing the University’s “little real estate development” in Allston and building a center for life sciences akin to Silicon Valley...
...second floor is used primarily for the chamber of the Macbeths,” said Cozzens. He refuses, however, to divulge exactly how the how the fourth floor fits into his production...
...know that most of the legislative activity - the bill drafting and vote trading - occurs off the Senate and House floors in committees. But bills ultimately have to be voted on by the full chamber. And the only thing definite a congressman or senator has to do on your behalf is cast his or her vote. But they don't do much of that these days. Last week I was talking to a Republican congressman and I asked him about legislative priorities his party had for this session. "Gee, I don't know," he said, half joking. "We're hardly ever...
Yuna is the requisite romantic lead. We first see her swooning beautifully in the doorway of the Chamber of Trials. Dewy with sweat, she collapses into the arms of a burly guardian, exalting breathily: “I’ve done it! I’ve become a summoner!” Sadly, the heroes of Final Fantasy seem to grow more androgynous, be they taciturn, long-lashed fighters or spunky, spikey-haired pickpockets. Role-playing games have a girl-friendly reputation, so it helps to have characters both genders can identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female...