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...shafts of light and clear, palpable chill. The narrator and her brother Jesper grow up in this setting, on a farm in Denmark in the 1930s. Distant from their parents, they find happiness in each other, and as the narrator grows from tagalong sister to adolescent, Petterson gives their relationship a delicate physical dimension...
...have gotten mixed up with official business. As ABC News first reported, Mahoney's romance with 50-year-old Patricia Allen began on a campaign stop in 2006. Following his election victory, she joined his congressional staff - but was soon moved back to his campaign staff. After terminating their relationship and then firing Allen in January of this year, Mahoney allegedly paid her and her lawyer $121,000 -along with a promise of a job at a media firm - to keep her quiet and avoid a sexual-harassment lawsuit. Allen has refused comment to ABC News...
...liaison officer for the Fairbank Center, who coordinated the event. Like Neuhauser, Spelman spent many years in academia and government, first as a professor at Bucknell and later as a diplomat, working for 30 years in the State Department. Spelman was also selected as the speaker because of his relationship with Neuhauser—the two worked together during Spelman’s time at Harvard, translating Chinese documents for American leaders in order to facilitate diplomatic relations...
...Teachers, which Weingarten also heads, publicly endorsed Obama for President in July. But while unions can signal to their members which candidate best serves their interests, a third-grade teacher telling her students she'll be voting for Obama is construed by many as overstepping. "This is not a relationship among adults - teachers are authority figures and role models for young students," says Stanford political science professor Terry Moe, who studies the nexus of teachers' unions and politics at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank. "It's an abuse of that authority to try to sway political views...
Kosmas claims that Feeney's relationship with Abramoff-which Feeney maintains doesn't go beyond that one trip-is symbolic of the culture of corruption in the nation's capital. "I think this issue is an example of him being what I refer to as a poster boy of what's wrong in Washington, where it's a focus on things that have much more to do with politics, power and cronyism than it is on really taking a hard look at what's important to the people that he's been sent to Washington to represent...