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...glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions in different administrations), feel the need to begin an interview with a journalist riding...
...humility in all areas of homemaking none is so clear as my experience with food preparation. All those years of shunning learning how to cook (since I equated it with the evil of domesticity) show through clearly in my helplessness in preparing even the simplest meal. I tried to hide my awe when one of my roommates threw two chicken breasts and some oil into a pan and out came dinner. I still haven't gotten to the point of boldly stepping up to the stove and trying to do it myself...
...trucks, launching water balloons with their three-man sling-shot. The adults manned the garden hoses. The fire department soon ran out of water and we declared victory. However, our fire fighters are resourceful folks and stole our water balloons. They won that year, but now we hide the ammunition behind women in wheelchairs...
Next year, Kedlaya will begin studying for a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton. In the long run, he says, he may enter academia ("hide in the ivory tower and avoid reality"), conduct research for a private company, or work for the "government." He refuses to elaborate further on the last point...
...tense meeting that afternoon with local officials and factory directors, Yeltsin dismissed Panskov's arguments and promised to reinstate a tax break for failing companies that had been removed last year under pressure from the IMF. "These people are trying to hide their profits and dodge taxes," Panskov pleaded in the open session. "They are telling us fairy tales. This move will bust the budget of the entire country." To which Yeltsin replied, "You can see that the government is against this. Now can any of you think of another way out?" When the audience shouted "No!", Yeltsin turned...