Word: parliamentarians
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...some reason he has disappeared from his customary perch above the President’s head,” Lewis added, as Faust looked up and around in confusion and seemed to mouth to this year’s parliamentarian Thomas F. Kelly, “What...
...drive against airbrushed photos is being headed by conservative parliamentarian Valérie Boyer, who says the widespread use of digital technology to alter images is feeding the public a steady visual diet of falsified people, places and products. This artificial reality leads people to expect perfection from themselves and the world in an impossible way, she says. "When writers take a news item or real event and considerably embellish it, they are required to alert readers by calling the work fiction, a novel or a story based on dramatized facts. Why should it be any different for photographs?" Boyer...
...Studies in Geneva. Others see irony in Gaddafi's comments. "It's a paradox that Gaddafi wants to dismantle Switzerland because, as he claims, it is not a homogenous country, while Libya is divided by a desert into two regions that hate each other," says Baptiste Hurni, a Socialist parliamentarian who blogs about Libya. (Read "Libya Flips Over Swiss Detention...
...elections also saw 13 candidates who had previously been UC representatives running again, as opposed to 12 last year, according to UC parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11. “I’m surprised we were able to have that same return rate, considering how tough of a semester we had last spring,” he said. “I think [the high return rate] says a lot about how important some people think what we are doing...
...Carlo De Benedetti, a business rival of Berlusconi's with interests in energy, automobiles and health care. Il Sole 24 Ore, the country's financial paper, is owned by Italy's main industrial lobby. "Italian entrepreneurs tend to depend largely on Italian politics," says Ricardo Franco Levi, an opposition parliamentarian and the former editor in chief of L'Indipendente, a short-lived 1991 attempt at a truly independent newspaper. "The possibilities of aggressive reporting are very, very limited." (Read: "The Berlusconi Tapes: 5 Ways to Evade the Scandal...