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...AUGUST, I SPENT THE MORNING with Rhee as she made surprise visits to Washington public schools. She emerged from her chauffeured black SUV with two BlackBerrys and a cell phone and began walking--fast--toward the front door of the first school. She wore a black pencil skirt, a delicate cream blouse and strappy high heels. When we got inside, she walked into the first classroom she could find and stood to the side, frowning like a specter. When a teacher stopped lecturing to greet her, she motioned for the teacher to continue. Rhee smiled only when students smiled...
...what people tell us about that to make those judgments," Geithner said. "But you can tell a lot from what's in someone's voice. And when you have [the leaders of] what are, without a doubt, some of the strongest, best-run institutions in the world [on the phone] and you hear that change in quality of voice, it tells you something...
...hell Godot was,” Chan said, “and he didn’t care.” When Green refused to join the project, Chan gave him a copy of “Godot.” The next morning, Chan received a phone call. “There was a man screaming on line,” he said. “He yelled, ‘Let’s not waste time in idle discourse,’ a line from the play.” Chan has combined politics with...
...subject was explosive. Two days earlier, Bennett had received a phone call from a Maryland woman named Linda Tripp, who said her friend Lewinsky had had an affair with Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough...
...newly reopened Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort's $1 billion renovation included putting an Apple iMac in each of the hotel's 1,504 rooms. With that, the Fontainebleau went "paperless": no in-room stationery, phone books, menus, newspapers - that's now available online only. Still, we figured the hotel's guests - along with the rest of the world - might want to write down a note now and again, so we fingered some of the most unusual and travel-friendly pens on the market...