Word: friendships
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people who know Bush well, the remark said it all about the longtime chill between the two pols?a distance that is only sure to grow with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea. Both camps describe the two conservative Texan's relationship as professional?an alliance, not a friendship. "DeLay admires Bush's leadership but still thinks of himself as the strongest conservative on the block," a DeLay friend says. "They perceive DeLay as a bull in a china shop. They appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under...
...result has been the most fascinating political partnership of the year. Their story has been like a buddy movie: an unlikely and even awkward arrangement that evolves into real friendship and then an alliance that expands beyond its original mission. Their team has its limits and its lingering, unbridgeable differences, and their bond sparks considerable resentment in the wings of both their parties. But first with the tsunami and then with Katrina, the two men have galvanized the private response to natural disasters this year. What's more, by working together, Bush and Clinton have reminded a deeply divided nation...
...lets you know it. (In our first interview, he didn't look at me for 15 minutes. Melinda fielded the soft questions he couldn't bear to handle, as she often does.) But Bono talks about global problems on a very high level, and one gets the sense their friendship is one of the great surprises of Bill's life. "It's not about making himself look good," Bill says. "He really reads this stuff; he cares about the complexity...
...based businesswomen committed to bringing a better life to financially disadvantaged women overseas, who often live in patriarchal societies in which work outside the home is frowned on or condemned outright. Why are women entrepreneurs getting in the business of giving back? "Women have a special gift for friendship," says Clare Brett Smith, an executive at Aid to Artisans, based in Hartford, Conn., which helps match U.S. entrepreneurs with artisans overseas. The other component? "Trust. It's one of the basic elements of a decent business...
...film starring Julia Roberts; of complications from diabetes; in Los Angeles. Nearly bankrupted by his defense of 648 residents of Hinkley, California, who said PG&E tanks caused high incidences of cancer and other illnesses, Masry's work led to a landmark $333 million settlement and a lasting friendship with his similarly brassy aide. "No one has called me more names than Erin Brockovich and I've called her everything in the book," he said. "But we love each other." DIED. DEVAN NAIR, 82, former President of Singapore who later became a critic of the city-state's government...