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...taxi driver - he was a tough-looking cookie - came out and said "You're Hillary, aren't you?" And I said "Yeah." And he said, "Congratulations. You know you've done a great job for us!" He got back in his cab and drove of. Now, the contrast was when we arrived back here in New Zealand. There was a big crowd - Mayor of Auckland and all the rest of it. I was put in this great big limousine to be driven off, and the window was down and a big hefty farmer-looking type thrust his hand in, grabbed...
...company's CEO, it may even predict his firm's success. Top executives who appear powerful and leaderlike at first glance are more likely to run profitable companies, according to a study by Tufts University psychologists published in the February issue of Psychological Science. By contrast, CEOs who seem likeable or trustworthy have...
...didn't have to underline the contrast with President George W. Bush, who has spent most of his time in office muscling legislation through a Republican Congress rather than trying to persuade the public to his way of thinking. McCain's style would be different...
National media attention in the first trial focused on the class difference between Pring-Wilson and Colono, highlighting the contrast between Harvard’s student body and the residents of the surrounding town. Pring-Wilson was a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, part of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences, and had been accepted to law school in his native Colorado...
...decide, said Jonathan Prince, Edwards' top strategist, is what kind of change the country wants. "Are we going to have a philosophical version of change, or are we going to have a fight to bring about the change we really need?" Prince asked in a rhetorical flourish meant to contrast philosophical change (Obama) with the real thing (Edwards). Edwards' populist message has focused on stamping out the power of corporate greed in Washington, and he argues that Obama's "Kumbaya" inclusiveness cannot get that job done. "Asking lobbyists to simply give up their power by asking them? In whose world...