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...speech of François Hollande, the party secretary - and, to complicate matters, her partner (they are not married) and the father of her four children. But while her colleagues were laying out their views on everything from the minimum wage to how to give the European Union more heft, Royal, who turns 53 this month, was seen on a ferry boat, on a live TV interview and at a posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party...
Given the tires' value, one feature that operators like about them is their heft. "At least they're rarely stolen," says Gregg Hoss, CEO of Hoss Equipment, a national mining-equipment company. "It'd be pretty tough to throw 7,500 lbs. of rubber into the back of a pickup." Just you wait...
...Mann's early films also needed performers with snazzier screen presence. These movies had the noir plots and attitude, but neither the actors to give the stories a fatalist heft nor the actresses beautiful and seductive enough to play a plausible femme fatale. In The Great Flamarion - a triangle drama in which a woman misuses the two men who desire her -Dan Duryea says of his wife, "Any guy who wouldn't fall for you is either a sucker or he's dead." Unfortunately, the wife is played by Mary Beth Hughes, who's pretty deficient in the allure category...
...this is a dangerous vision for a poet. Wright forgets that poetry’s virtue—its saving grace—is particularity. Readers can access poetry’s meaning only through the nuances of the text, through the heft and rhythm of a single word...
Make a little extra dough through the Harvard Business School’s Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Just go to www.hbs.edu/cler, and you can rake in an average of $20-$25 per completed study, which will put a bit more heft in your pocket than the Psych Department’s Study Pool that only offers $5 for a 30-minute study. Plus, no creepy questions about your sex life. Sweet...