Word: helene
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...knows whether he was loved? The important thing is that he thought he wasn't. He turned his hurt into pugnacity and focused his considerable intelligence on getting back at the swells, the Eastern establishment, the California glamorati - beginning with his first, red-baiting Congressional campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former movie actress (She) and the wife of star Melvyn Douglas...
...What he was able to do with space was unprecedented,” he said. “He was described as a ‘machine for living’ but it was the living that was most important to him.” Local artist and photographer Helen K. Eddy said that she was able to relate more strongly to the late architect after Weber’s talk. “My art, like that of Le Corbusier, is to express beauty,” she said. “Some artists create art to express truth...
...Senate race winner is weary, disillusioned and in no state to make the transition from rhetoric to reality. John Key has had no such problems. Having led the National Party to an emphatic triumph in New Zealand's Nov. 8 general election, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark, the former currency trader was pressing for a quick handover so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from Nov. 22. The day after Key's National-led government was sworn in, he flew out for APEC, after which he'll head to London...
...content to play a very minor role in world affairs. Do you agree with that characterisation, and do you have a different vision for New Zealand's place in the world? I'm not sure I would totally agree with that. I think most New Zealanders would have seen Helen Clark's greatest strength, outside her ability to manage in our Mixed Member Proportional system, as being the role she played on the international stage. But there has to be the acknowledgment that, fundamentally, we're a very small country. In one sense, there's a limited sphere of influence...
...officially means Hong Kong is in a recession, and it doesn't look likely to end any time soon. The government lowered its forecast for 2008 growth from 4-5% to 3-3.5%. "The global financial turmoil has derailed the economic upturn that Hong Kong has enjoyed," government economist Helen Chan told reporters. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...