Word: inners
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...want him dead." The dialogue is tack-sharp and finely polished, but still so natural it could have floated out of any café on any street corner of Paris. Like other films Bacri and Jaoui have written together, Look at Me uses gentle satire to convey moral lessons: inner beauty trumps physical beauty, creative integrity is more important than success. The biggest lesson is on the fragile balance of power. "If you put eight people together, there will always be a vacancy of power," says Bacri. "And someone will always step into that space. There...
...cultivated that popularity by being friendly to all; as Don E. Miller put it, “no matter what your politics, if you met him then, you would’ve liked him.” But he was especially friendly to an inner circle, and he christened each member with a nickname. Patrick Shea recalls going to the inauguration with classmate Bill Strong, whom Bush dubbed “Strongman.” “When [Bush] passed, Bill yelled out ‘Congratulations,’” Shea says...
...then a doctoral student who taught an organizational behavior class for the section, calls Bush “an average student with a comic side.” Winston, one of the few black teachers at the time, had developed and taught a course called Organizational Development in the Inner City at the school previously. Although that class was overflowing, and was ranked second of 66 electives by students, when a new head of Winston’s department arrived he canceled the class, and sent Winston to teach the core organizational behavior class for section...
...connect with and galvanize a notoriously recalcitrant group of voters. Or even keep track of them: at several houses where Lindquist stopped that afternoon, the registered voter had moved without leaving a phone number or forwarding address. "We don't bring 300 kids from Ohio State University into the inner city of Columbus," says David Leland, national director of Project Vote, a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which claims it has registered more than 50,000 voters in the Columbus area. "I don't know that they have the same credibility, and they...
...brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which to advance his extravagant ambitions. Drawn from lengthy interrogations of the core Iraqi leadership and Saddam during their months in U.S. custody, the Duelfer report sheds fresh light on the dictator's inner motivations and artful deceptions...