Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is good reason for New Yorkers to react so strongly to Hillary Rodham Clinton's still unofficial Senate run. Being a heavily Democratic city, the problem isn't necessarily with her politics, but with her home state. Clinton is a skilled lawyer and certainly a talented politician who could probably adequately represent New York, but she cannot have passion for things New York. Why else would her first major political move be to proclaim her love for the New York Yankees...
There is good reason for New Yorkers to react so strongly to Hillary Rodham Clinton's still unofficial Senate run. Being a heavily Democratic city, the problem isn't necessarily with her politics, but with her home state. Clinton is a skilled lawyer and certainly a talented politician who could probably adequately represent New York, but she cannot have passion for things New York. Why else would her first major political move be to proclaim her love for the New York Yankees...
When Alexei reads about a sensational contract killing--for example, the opposition Deputy Galina Starovoitova gunned down on the stairs of her apartment building last fall, or the St. Petersburg politician Mikhail Manevich hit five times at long range as his car sped down a busy street in August 1997, or the mafia leader felled by a sniper's single bullet as he left a steam bath--he has an eerie feeling. He wonders whether he trained the hit man. At times, he says, he imagines himself sitting next to the killer, checking his technique as he carries...
...ever had the feeling that he was a politician," Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky said of his tenure as parliamentarian. "He is totally honest and totally above board...
NAME: Alec Baldwin AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Actor/Clinton backer/would-be politician BEST PUNCH: During an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, denounced the New York Post as "the worst newspaper that was ever created in the history of journalism" and suggested that more legitimate news could be found in a Bazooka comic...