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Those who've opposed Pelosi have soon found themselves stripped of a committee: just look at John Dingell and Jane Harman - two Dems who clashed with Pelosi and who somehow ended up losing their committee chairmanships. She also tends to reward supporters with plum assignments over those who fought her. Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost waited for years to get on the Appropriations Committee and, after challenging Pelosi for minority leader, soon watched fellow Texan Chet Edwards get a coveted committee seat. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...series follows Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a U.S. Marshal who has been booted from a plum post in Miami after a high-profile shooting garnered unwanted publicity: he beat a mobster to the draw western-style, though at a table at a fancy restaurant. The bureau moves him to Harlan County, Kentucky, where Givens grew up and which he then escaped - running from, among other things, a criminal father who's now in jail...
Childless and twice married, Merkel was cast as an indulgent mother to the electorate during the 2009 campaign. Though she claims to bake the occasional plum cake, she doesn't exactly match the ideal of a German hausfrau. Her second husband, an eminent chemist, often ducks out of official events. "He needs the working day for his science," says Merkel. Such attitudes may have annoyed traditionalists, but her quiet determination has helped her gain broad support well beyond the Christian Democrats' core voters. Even among those who identify themselves as Social Democrats, Merkel's unstuffy pragmatism, social liberalism and commitment...
...culture is the shallow vessel in which it is contained?”) Others propose that the very idea of an intellectual nucleus is outdated, with the collective energy of e-mail, blogs, and Twitter heralding a more diffuse power breakdown—in high-school-chemistry-speak, more plum pudding than Bohr model...
...raspberry-colored silk blouse and matching organza skirt. She's taken to pairing well-cut trousers with bright, ethnic print blouses this summer. And she recently gave the famously well-dressed Carla Bruni a run for her money, when she received the French first lady in a plum Felipe Varela bandage-dress whose horizontal lines emphasized (in the most ladylike way possible, of course) her fine figure...