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...Packard in 2005, Fiorina explained that in the end, she was “at peace” with her decision to “stay true to her values and tell the truth” instead of saving face and letting the board of directors that fired her portray her dismissal as her choice and a result of a desire to move...

Author: By David A. Lorch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HP Exec: I Ran with the Big Boys | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...champion of the dispersed and dispossessed, the victim of piling-on by outside forces, and rally those still living outside the city to the cause. Nagin, however, had one advantage that Jefferson lacks: his chief opponents in the mayoral race were white, making it easy for him to portray the contest as a power grab in a demographically shaken "chocolate city," as he so memorably put it. Jefferson's major challengers, on the other hand, are African-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: Playing the Victim in Louisiana | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...Build a Bridge,” McDonald has selected songs that portray complicated emotional states, showing off her acting as well as singing talent...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Audra McDonald, "Build a Bridge" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...homage to genre and I just didn’t get it. Questions like, “Is ‘Showgirls’ really a brilliant farce on adult entertainment?” or “Is ‘Gigli” about the way we portray lesbianism in modern American media?’ have tormented me forever...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Black Dahlia | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

From Washington State to Missouri to Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates found themselves on the defensive Wednesday as the Republican Party worked ferociously at every level to try to use the primary defeat of Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut to portray the opposition as the party of weakness and isolation on national security and liberal leanings on domestic policy. Doleful Democrats bemoaned the irony: At a time when Republicans should be back on their heels because of chaos abroad and President Bush's unpopularity, the Democrats' rejection of a sensible, moralistic centrist has handed the GOP a weapon that could have vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Republicans Are Loving the Lieberman Loss | 8/9/2006 | See Source »

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