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Senator Dianne Feinstein, the state's most popular politician, has been coy about her intentions regarding the race. She would make a powerful candidate, but others doubt that she would give up her influence in the Senate...
...only man who can carry through the sweeping populist reforms he began a decade ago, many Colombians feel only Uribe can safeguard the economic revival and improved security he's brought to South America's most war-torn country. Uribe so far has played it coy, neither declaring he wants another term nor denying it. Pundits say they'd be shocked if, after watching Chávez gain the opportunity, he doesn't fight for the same treatment. (See pictures of Colombia's guerilla army...
...deeply with a character. As she describes a late night phone call or an encounter with a nostalgic man at an empty bar, Smith makes the reader feel almost interchangeable with the characters she creates. The whispered secrets or shared laughter at once engage the reader and make them coy to look in at such intimate moments. Smith’s resonating intimacy and the role of the onlooker she assigns the reader force an examination of the relationship between spectator and spectacle. Smith engages the question of how this relationship might shape the reader’s identity. Does...
...pretty much the devil. This is fact. I mean, look at that charming face, that movie star smile, that evil cancer stick dangling from his pretty mouth, coercing impressionable children everywhere to smoke. This book is almost certainly about all the wrongdoing Reagan perpetrated while he hid behind his coy grin and dashing good looks. From Iran-Contra to Reaganomics to introducing crack cocaine to the hood (alright, maybe he didn’t really do this, but damn if he doesn’t make a good scapegoat), there’s plenty of fodder for new age liberals...
...Since shortly after winning her second full term in 2006, which she said would be her last, Hutchison has been dancing a coy waltz across Texas over her plans to run in 2010 for governor. But in December she set up a gubernatorial exploratory committee, funding it with $1 million from her $8 million federal campaign chest. That move forced major Republican donors to choose sides, and it has sparked a wave of speculation about whether or when she might resign her Senate seat and who would seek to replace...