Word: pens
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...foreign press flapped about Palin (and the lack of access to her), few in the local Cantonese media - or most Hong Kongers, in general - seemed to care. Few representatives from Hong Kong's tabloid-driven press stood in the forlorn journalist pen outside the hotel. Shown a picture of Palin, a woman surnamed Ng, who operated a food stand near the Grand Hyatt, professed to not know who she was. "If she is rich and famous, then maybe she goes shopping nearby," said Ng from behind her counter. "Afterward, she can come eat my fishballs...
...memoir just one year after graduating. By the time he was 26, his book, “A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano”, had been published. He described the writing process as “cathartic” and explained his decision to pen the memoir so soon out of college...
...French communists during his time in postwar France as an Army MP - just one of the sticky situations he would get into as a young man: "I could see that their sticks were sharpened at the ends. Pig sticks, used for jabbing at pigs to encourage them toward the pen. Then I remembered that I was armed as well: wrapped around each leg of my MP pants ... was a bicycle chain ... I reached down and unhooked the chains. I started whirling them over my head...
...reach across party lines to pass legislation. His quest for bipartisanship was instantiated by his alliance with former President George W. Bush on the “No Child Left Behind” school legislation, a copy of which hung on the wall of his office along with the pen that Bush used to sign the document. According to Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who worked with Kennedy on welfare reform during the Clinton administration, although Kennedy entered office as part of a political dynasty, his ultimate reputation as an effective, revered legislator came from...
...Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge...