Word: marks
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...reads all her lines correctly. The showy role - of a public-relations creep named Dominic Foy, a friend of the murdered woman and a pusher of questionable corporate agendas - goes to Jason Bateman. He's most entertaining, in a squirm-inducing way, but lacks the preening, queening elan of Mark Warren, the BBC's Dominic...
...Fidrych, Mark • passing...
...bills remain. "They're not paying Mark Penn; they're paying the shareholders of WPP," says WPP executive vice president Howard Paster, who ran the Office of Legislative Affairs in Bill Clinton's White House. And as long as Hillary Clinton continues to show an ability to pay them off, the firm does not have the option of simply forgiving the debt, Paster insists. If it did, its lawyers say, that could be an illegal in-kind contribution under federal election...
...consultant to back his entry into politics. He was an energetic campaigner in 2004, but those elections really belonged to his mother, Sonia Gandhi, who asserted her canny leadership of the party in putting together a winning coalition. This year, Rahul Gandhi is trying to make his mark, with a pledge to democratize the institutions of his party. He has promised that within two years, the youth wing of the Congress Party will choose its leadership by vote rather than by appointment, and he has pledged to increase the number of people under 35 who run for office on Congress...
...than two years into a five-year, reform-focused term - especially when you add in a nightmarish global recession few people expected. Still, Chirac must secretly be enjoying the moment. After his own 12 year presidency limped to an end with approval ratings at times dipping below the 20% mark, Chirac was left to watch his one-time protégé-turned-rival take over the Elysée and thrill a mesmerized French public. Where Chirac's leadership was criticized as plodding, unfocused, and ready to sacrifice reform at the first sign of opposition, Sarkozy's has been...