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...Senate re-election campaign debates to the point where advisers like Karl Rove can recite portions from memory. As a result, Bush's negotiators insisted on banning nearly all the stagecraft Kerry had used to devastating effect against his G.O.P. opponent, Governor William Weld, such as roaming from the lectern and asking direct questions. What Kerry's camp got were three debates rather than the two that Bush's campaign initially said it wanted. Getting three contests "was much more important to us than any detail of the format," says Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. A challenger always wants...
...crowd at the mosque erupts when al-Sadr appears. At 30, he is pudgy and pale faced. He stands at the lectern draped in his burial shroud, a symbol of his determination to die for his faith. He reads his address at high speed, his head down, his body occasionally rocking from side to side. Al-Sadr speaks to the crowd with no rhetorical flourishes or demagogic appeals but makes his purpose plain just the same. He takes a swipe at the Shi'ite hierarchy, which has withheld its support for his uprising. "When I die," he says...
...particularly gratified that the title lends official institutional recognition to work with undergraduates, sending to faculty members a message of “confidence about what the institution values.” Kirshner has long been one of Harvard’s most visible personalities behind the lectern. His signature course, Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe,” has consistently been one of the largest in that core area, enrolling 223 undergraduates this spring...
...half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...
Matters could hardly have gone better for Latham last week at his party's national conference in Sydney. These events, of course, are stage-managed and controlled by Labor's factional rocks. But delegates were on a high and they indulged their new leader. The slogan behind the lectern evoked early Tony Blair: mark latham and labor. His opening speech was reminiscent of a campaign launch (which it was, in a way), but Latham did not overdo it. He was measured, humble and did not stray from a long-standing platform. There were powerful visual images ("I want to save...