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Meanwhile, Cooper, a woman known as a perfectionist, was losing control over her domain at WorldCom. One day she walked into the office and found eight investigators perusing her files. All her phone and email messages are being collected, to this day. And she continues to cooperate with a steady stream of investigators, from the FBI to the Securities and Exchange Commission, says her attorney, Bob Muse...
...time," says Aslihan Dede, 21, using a term of respect. "He is one of us." Elected mayor of Istanbul in 1994, Erdogan banned drinking from city-owned caf?s, but also resurrected a failing fresh water supply and cleared the trash from the city's cobblestone streets. "He's a perfectionist," says Mehmet Muezzinoglu, a physician and party colleague who has known Erdogan since high school. Rusen Cakir, an Erdogan biographer and expert on political Islam, stresses the politician's provincial upbringing and working-class values. "Unlike Erbakan, who was a spiritual father, Erdogan is more familiar, like a brother...
...definitely a perfectionist in my younger days,” Moore said. “[But] you learn a sort of Zen Buddhism-type thing that you should just be in the moment and you learn how to react to things going on in that moment...
...even though both performers are at the top of their respective games as musical scientists, their experiment at the Orpheum proved little about their strength as lab partners. While the music was great, the chemistry seemed lacking. It’s not hard to imagine that Beck, the moody perfectionist who is used to conducting his own cut-and-paste band, may have felt a bit jarred by the Lips’ blend of eclecticism. Coyne’s line in the fantastic opener “Race for the Prize” may have had some unintended significance...
...myself doing it." His manager told him to take a second look. "She was trying to tell me in a covert way that it was well suited to me." She was right. There's a touch of sweet-hearted madness in many of his characters, from the perfectionist chef in Big Night to Wings' goofily hapless cabbie Antonio. Where another actor would have made Monk Keerrraazy with a capital K, Shalhoub portrays him with cool-jazz reserve as a Woody Allenish nerd, which makes the character both funnier and more affecting...