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...teaching fellow at Harvard, West was preparing to give a talk on the Greek tragedy Antigone when one of the students, mistaking West for a janitor, asked him to bring in more chairs. West complied, but when the rest of the class arrived he marched to the lectern. He delivered an impassioned discourse on Antigone's love song "about human beings being so noble on one hand and so cruel on the other...
While the President glances through a green folder, the officials responsible for each item on the day's agenda begin briefing him from a lectern beside the table. One day the topics might be land reform and the economic difficulties of Russia's Far North. On another day the focus might be on more immediate problems, like the conflict with Ukraine over the Black Sea fleet. Yeltsin usually listens in silence, his immobile face looking as if it were carved in stone. He has the reputation of being a tough taskmaster, but he is also said to be fair...
...moment House Speaker Tom Foley must have dreaded since the congressional check-kiting scandal hit the headlines last year. Texas Democrat John Bryant stepped up to the lectern and said, "For Tom Foley, political leadership is not a responsibility which he relishes. I call on ((him)) to retire...
Bruce Goodrich's set is suitably angular and spartan--a wooden wall lined with a grim row of sepia photographs forms the background. And a lectern, table and three chairs (all at severe right angles to each other) serve as the only furniture. The set's rigidity contrasts well with the informality of Atkins' movements and gestures, just as the bright green table cloth sets off her purple suit...
...look in his eyes not unlike the determination he exhibited the morning after Iraq invaded Kuwait. In plain language he threatened to veto any congressional loan bill that might emerge before the prospective Middle East peace conference, which he hopes to get off the ground next month. Pounding the lectern, he warned that a divisive congressional debate over the guarantees "could well destroy our ability to bring one or more of the parties" to the Middle East peace table. "Too much is at stake to let domestic politics take precedence over peace," Bush declared...