Word: martha
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...planned to resign the deanship, which she has held since 2003. Kagan had been nominated to serve as then-President-elect Barack Obama's solicitor-general, the administration's representative to the Supreme Court. Kagan was confirmed as the nation's first female Solicitor General in March, and Martha Minow—a long-time Harvard Law School professor—took the HLS deanship in July...
...their sets. I believe Meyers, as a producer of lifestyle porn, requires a fulltime bleacher, making sure every pristine surface and outfit stays that way. No matter how good Streep is, watching her in these surroundings feels akin to seeing Sarah Bernhardt trapped in a live-action edition of Martha Stewart Living. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...striking that Lam’s friends, teachers, and family members confidently predict that she will someday become President of the United States. According to Martha L. Brown, Lam’s mother, her inbox was filled with congratulations to the future President following news of Lam’s Rhodes Scholarship. “She doesn’t take herself terribly seriously,” she says. “She’s an excellent listener, a diplomatic person, and is just really well-liked...
...special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, some GOP analysts are painting the race as a referendum on one of the most divisive political issues around. The fact that Republican candidate Scott Brown has pulled into a virtual dead heat with Democratic nominee Martha Coakley - prompting President Obama to stump with her this week - is, they say, an indictment of the pending congressional health care overhaul. Much is at stake in the balloting. Coakley would provide Democrats with a critical 60th aye vote, preserving the party's filibuster-proof majority - a fact that Brown...
...Martha Coakley will go to Washington to fight every day to create good jobs with good benefits and to get health reform with a strong public option. You can trust her to get results in the Senate just as she has as your attorney general." - Former President Bill Clinton, in a robocall sent to more than 500,000 Massachusetts voters shortly before the primary...