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...question you ought to put to your staffers as they prepare for their interagency talkfests. While they are pulling their all-nighters, do invite Tony, Gerhard and Jacques to the ranch, though friends of Bill they are. Bring along your dad. Back then, he had a wonderful knack for the Europeans, what with his masterful handling of German reunification and nato expansion. They trust and respect "Poppy." He would be the best hand on the bridge when the winds get rougher. And they will...
...Today, less than a month into his new job as Secretary of Education, Paige is bringing his knack for bridge building and his emphasis on measurable results to Washington, where he will spearhead President Bush's most promising effort at winning bipartisan support. Although Bush has pledged to push more local control of schools, Paige says, "We can use the bully pulpit to make the point that no child being left behind is not just a statement of sentimentality...
This time, however, he wasn't so quick to hang up his hat. His knack for directing, he says, "had left the building, but I knew it was still within the city limits. I just needed to tear down everything and start over." The result was Schizopolis, a 1997 comedy that Soderbergh shot back home in Baton Rouge. It's become a kind of cult favorite on video, a thoroughly nonsensical piece of work written by, directed by and starring Soderbergh, who spends a long sequence in the movie contorting his normally deadpan face in front of a mirror...
Lily Bart (Anderson) has a knack for audacity. "My genius," she says, "seems to consist in doing the wrong thing at the right time." Men want to leave their fortunes to her, or their wives for her. But in old, moneyed Manhattan, sensation was more narrowly defined, more severely censured. Lily's charm is punishable by exile...
...popularity in many college circles. With songs ranging from "Birdhouse In Your Soul" to "I Should Be Allowed to Think," the Giants sport a quirky, tongue-in-cheek style that often delights in the silly, binges on esoteric allusion and has an addictive, sophisticated wit. This, coupled with their knack for writing deliciously catchy melodies, is what makes They Might Be Giants irresistible...