Word: cigar
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...names in most surveys), it is a bit disconcerting that they think they can publicly lie about the governor by accusing him of cutting education funding—in fact he raised it by $3 billion—then make nice with him in the famous “cigar-tent” and ask for autographs for their children. I think he should remind them that “he can break your neck like a chicken’s” (The Running Man), but maybe that’s just...
...fairness, the caricature of cigar-chomping Americans trampling over Europe seems misplaced. While some of the major U.S. investors have Americans on staff in Europe, their public face is usually local. "We are not showing up with a cowboy hat," says the principal of one U.S. fund. Ostmeier, for example, who is based in Hamburg, is German, a former management consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Dsseldorf. He spent seven years working for a London-based European private-equity group before he joined Blackstone in 2003. Jean-Pierre Millet, who runs Carlyle's European operations out of Paris...
...much about why his wife took the time off-?personal reasons,? he says. But he also says that her career has been hurt by the disclosure of her identity. ?There's a whole part of her career that she can no longer do,? says Wilson as he smokes a cigar on his back porch, with a view of the Washington Monument and planes coming down the Potomac River on final approach to Reagan National Airport. ?Professionally, obviously she can't work with the same amount of discretion she was able to work in before,? he adds. ?It would be very...
...rehearsing without much concern for the skin on his elbows and knees. When no passer was handy, Berry's habit was to run phantom patterns over and over, pausing now and then to consult the file of index cards he kept with him on the sidelines in a cigar...
...attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film. On his way to the church, he slowed his limousine out front, rolled down the window and, holding a cigar, flashed a huge grin at the crowd...