Word: eleanore
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...might not be enough juice in District politics to get national buzz, even when the mayor's office is only a few blocks from the White House. The city's only federal elected office is the non-voting delegate to the House, and some of the biggest news incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (unchallenged by local Republicans this fall) has made in 16 years in office was when she called Stephen Colbert vanilla in July. The National Governors Association doesn't let D.C.'s top executive join, even though its annual meetings are held across the street from city hall...
Cheney is not the first political heavyweight to hold forth at the Harvard Club. According to the club’s website, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Taft, and John Foster Dulles have all been visitors...
...recent Wednesday night, Eleanor Phipp spent an hour watching commercial television. Nothing unusual about that - except that Phipp, 30, was in a dark room at a south London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners - which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity - are mainly used to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized for decidedly nonmedical reasons. Researchers were monitoring how it reacted...
Cheney is not the first political heavyweight to hold forth at the Harvard Club. According to the club's website, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Taft, and John Foster Dulles have all been visitors...
...Ocean Springs businesswoman Eleanor "Cissy" Jordan lost 45 rental houses and a commercial building, all bought on The Point by her grandfather, a Lebanese immigrant who came to Biloxi in 1926. Losing them wiped out 90% of her income. "The casinos are the only entertainment game in town for those of us who have been through so much emotionally over the past year," says Jordan...