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...presidential race was not Hillary's first experience with expedient self-censorship. Bill Clinton lost his first re-election bid as Governor in part because voters did not like the way this attorney out of Yale and Wellesley kept her maiden name. After she began answering to Clinton instead of Rodham and acting more like an archetypal wife and mother, she gradually expanded her role. Over the years she headed up an education task force that instituted a competency test for teachers, brought a neonatal-care unit and two fully equipped hospital helicopters to the state and introduced a home...
Isabella is perhaps one of the least liked characters in Shakespeare. A cold self-disciplined maiden schooled in a nunnery, she sees the world in absolute terms: virgin honor is worth preserving even at the cost of her brother's life. Yet Bloom breathes life and warmth into Isabella . We see her fear when pleading with the governor for mercy for her brother, her fury when the governor proposes sex in exchange for her brother's freedom, her anguish when she perceives her brother to have compromised his honor: "yet hath he in him such a mind of honor/ That...
...electrifying maiden speech to the Knesset was intended to warm the atmosphere with the Palestinians. Differentiating himself from the intransigent Shamir, Rabin set a reasoned and pragmatic tone, inviting the Palestinian negotiators for an informal parley before the next formal session in Rome, in a month or two, and pledging to bargain continuously until agreement is reached. "Rabin believes that the expectations the Israeli public has of him are very high," says Gad Yaacobi, designated to become Israel's next U.N. ambassador. "He would like to fulfill them early on in his term so as not to erode his political...
...with Barbara Bush and had Clinton campaign officials handing out "Hillary's Cookies" at the Democratic Convention. She further altered her image from career woman to domestic helpmate by changing her clothing style from business suits to more "feminine" pastel dresses. Earlier in her career, she used her maiden name instead of taking her husband's, but became "Mrs. Clinton" when her assertion of independence was viewed negatively by his constituents. Mrs. Clinton has spent a long time trying not to let the media turn her anger at women's restricted roles into a political liability...
...sedate House of Lords, tradition demands that maiden speeches be brief and uncontroversial. But not if former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the speaker. As Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, she made her debut with a 25-minute fulmination against the European Community...