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Just after 9:15 p.m., Capuano strode to the podium to the strains of "Taking Care of Business," his wife and two sons...
...Forum is a "podium" for "policy-makers and leaders in the community," Sargent says...
...midafternoon in a windowless room in an office building south of the San Francisco airport, and the man once known as Meathead is perspiring. His beefy hands gesticulate and then clutch the podium as he confides his life story. "Twenty years ago," he says, "I had a tough time in my life. I got divorced. I went into therapy. Now I'm doing O.K. I have three kids, a good job." Pause. "A nice suit." The audience laughs on cue, and the former Meathead plunges on. "But the early experiences I had as a child directly affected how I functioned...
...deception, but I just didn't want to believe [Clinton] had the capacity to deceive." No doubt his new bosses in the private sector will appreciate that kind of loyalty. The drollest of press spokesmen may claim to feel "free at last" after three years on the White House podium -- but part of him, it seems, will never leave...
Paul Farmer, director of IHSJ, pointed to the word "veritas" hanging on the podium in front of him and asked, "How many times has somebody stood in front of this word and actually told the truth...