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...drawback of being a sex symbol: "And then there were those eyes ... they were a terrific asset but a terrific embarrassment too. He hadn't worked for them or chosen them, and the whole world seemed to have an opinion about them and to want to possess them, if only for a moment. Strangers would literally walk up to him and stare right into them, and when he took to wearing dark glasses, they would insist that he take them off. 'There's nothing that makes you feel more like a piece of meat,' he complained. 'It's like saying...
...John Spratt, chairman of the House Budget Committee, says Pelosi's kitchen cabinet, of which he is a member, is too small. "She would benefit from greater diversity of opinion," he says, adding that her small circle of confidants leaves her isolated and vulnerable to missteps when unanticipated issues arise. In the wake of the AIG bonus scandal, for example, Pelosi and other leaders moved quickly to pass sweeping legislation to drastically tax executive compensation. Such a gesture might have done incredible damage to the market had cooler heads in the Administration and the Senate not prevailed...
...campaign trip in a small town in Tamil Nadu, Gandhi had been targeted because of his decision to send in Indian peacekeeping troops to Sri Lanka in 1987 while he was Prime Minister. The Tiger leader became a wanted man in India, and the tide of public opinion in India turned decisively against the LTTE. India has a large population of ethnic Tamils, and many of them had been sympathetic to the cause of oppressed Tamils in Sri Lanka. In 2002, when pressed by journalists on his involvement in the killing, Prabhakaran refused to comment. "It is a tragic incident...
...which Flores and UC Vice President Kia McLeod ’10 were copied, Smith pointed to the town hall meetings, a web portal detailing the planned cuts, and group discussions administrators have held with students as examples of the administration’s effort to solicit student opinion.“All of this seems to me to be very much in the spirit of the ‘open dialog’ the students say they are seeking,” he wrote. Smith also wrote that students are involved in the working groups that have been established...
...themes have also come up across the Houses’ e-mail lists. Students have also been editing “Students Concerned for Harvard’s Future,” a wiki created by Amol K. Jain ’10 that allows students to voice their opinions on the budget cuts. More than 140 students have signed their name on the wiki saying that they are “concerned about the direction Harvard is headed and sympathize with a few or many of the perspectives on [the] site.” House Committee chairs, student group...