Word: inners
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...quasi-literary soliloquies that make no sense, but that are said in a forceful way as if to pretend they actually do, and sometimes peppered with decidedly modern expressions for the 17th century (such as, “fuck you!”). No one’s inner-motivations are explored in a satisfactory or unself-conscious way. Women seem to have no inner motivations at all, except a heart-felt desire to be long-suffering or mercenary and spunky. This is Laurence Dunmore’s first directorial effort, and he seems obsessed with showing how dirty...
Even before DeLay's announcement that he would abdicate his leadership post, top Bush advisers tell TIME, the President's inner circle always treated DeLay as a necessary burden. He may have had an unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy?in background and temperament?the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with...
...MOVING WITHIN THE INNER CIRCLE...
...trying to rally by championing levee restoration and a host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when he was elected two years ago. To that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats...
...knowledgeable right away on the inner workings of the Stafford Act (the law under which FEMA operates). It's very technical, a lot of arcane issues, and it's played out in very emotional issues like what can be paid for and what...