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Benvenutti, who worked in Washington last summer for Common Cause, a nonprofit citizen's lobbying organization, raised a skeptical eyebrow at the suggestion that one goes into business to learn about politics, or into the private sector to learn about the public...
While beauty is a given, what you don't expect is the uncensored river of provocative commentary, delivered with the bemused arch of one thin eyebrow (just the left one) while her delicate hands conduct an air ballet. "Everyone is so constipated by fear in Hollywood. Everybody cares so much; they care about your hair, about your clothes," she says, raising that eyebrow to indicate they don't really care at all. "I was surprised at how insincere people could be, but that's the currency of Hollywood...
...Leonard Wu is prepared: for hay fever, for wood splinters, for kindergarden arts and crafts. His pockets are crammed with construction-paper scissors, oyster-opening pliers, eyebrow-plucking tweezers, extra-strength Kleenex packets and a bus schedule...
...beckoned my girlfriend to bed, using my patented finger curl-wink-raised eyebrow-"Hey, seriously, would you please come over here for just a second?" thing that no woman has been able to resist. I held her close, removed this little piece of chicken from my teeth that had been bugging me all day and opened our Census envelope. All week I had longed for this moment when we could declare our love to the State, God and any compilers of statistical information. This was a declaration that, unlike marriage, could not be voided for at least 10 years. This...
...good human-resources manager can also help fix problems like high employee turnover. In today's supertight labor market, where frequent job hopping no longer raises an eyebrow and stock options are passed around like punch, it's tough holding on to new hires, says Lorie Nevares, founder of StateScape, an online legislative and regulatory information service. Most people who come to work for StateScape are in their 20s. For them, Nevares says, "the job market is like Candyland." She adds, "They find out they can get big money somewhere else, and if a chance comes to jump, they...