Word: helming
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...Democrats' victory will be viewed as historic not just for the size and the breadth of the win. Pelosi will take the helm as the country's first woman Speaker, the person directly behind the vice president for succession to the Presidency, at a moment of key contest between the branches of government and deep divide in the country over the war in Iraq and the fight against international terrorism. How President Bush learns to deal with the gentlewoman from San Francisco will be a key story of the rest of his presidency...
Stranger Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
Altshuler’s announcement comes at a time of rapid turnover at the helm of Harvard’s schools, and it means that the University’s next president will be left with at least three dean appointments upon assuming office...
...presents similar moments of incisive comedy.Jennifer H. Rugani ‘07 performs excellently in the role of Bette’s mother, Margaret. Rugani brings a cold presence to her character that nicely complements Margaret’s frigid personality.”Stern is at the helm of “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” as part of the HRDC’s yearly Visiting Director’s Project. Stern’s directing is expertly understated in that he emphasizes the character-based nature of the play. Stern keeps outside effects...
...advised and disastrous foreign policy, the true cause of Republican misfortunes. Unless the Republican Party acknowledges the problems with its post-9/11 foreign policy and returns to its rational, restrained roots, either it will die out, as Americans refuse to trust it any longer at the helm of our country, or it will overextend our military so much that our efforts to preserve peace and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons will collapse...