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...there are many aspects to Latham's emerging public image. He promised to curtail his loose tongue and aggressive parliamentary manner. So far, he has been disciplined. Given his dramatic rise, journalists are seeking to fill out his back story. After a slush of rumors about his private life, and claims of physical violence, Latham held an Oprah-style press conference to defend his character. A safe player would have issued a denial and held his nerve; Latham turned the episode into hyper-reality TV. "There were things that you just wouldn't believe," Latham told reporters about his first...
...counsel for John Kerry from 1984 to 1995, became a close friend, and remains an adviser. Winer got to know Richard Kerry and saw how father and son related. "[Richard] was a dissident, a genuine dissident within the Department of State. He was not of the manor or the manner born. But he had the style and the capacity to become a foreign service officer anyway. He left because he was an insufficiently doctrinaire anticommunist." In Winer's rendering of Richard Kerry's career, the lessons for his son are clear and noble: "'Don't be afraid to take...
...needed a bigger arena." But she readily acknowledges that the role of wife and mother (of two) was not nearly as easy for her as ministering, and that "it has been the women in my churches who have nurtured my feminine side." Whatever her personal learning curve, her professional manner has always felicitously mixed the stereotypical feminine and masculine virtues. Or as another high-powered Presbyterian, Wisconsin's the Rev. Deborah Block, puts it admiringly, "Susan can command a room and hug it at the same time...
...will counsel Catholic public officials that their acting consistently to support abortion on demand risks making them cooperators in evil in a public manner." U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, in a statement that allows individual bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion...
...Indian columnist Vinod Mehta, Blackwill reduced an academic nearly to tears by shouting, "Rubbish, rubbish!" in reply to her remarks and dismissed other interruptions, yelling, "I insist, I insist!" and continuing to speak. In 2002, after embassy staff members registered a slew of complaints about Blackwill's imperious manner, he was given a scathing review by the State Department's inspector general. Blackwill declined to comment on the report. He nevertheless brought the U.S. and India closer on trade and security than at any other point in history and helped prevent a war between India and Pakistan in the summer...