Word: repped
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...record of the 1964 Olympics that stands with Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia as the great art-reportage of the summer games Xie Jin, 84, a preeminent director in Mao's China, is best known for Two Stage Sisters, an assured melodrama about a country girl who joins a rep company. During the Cultural Revolution the film was charged with advocating "the reconciliation of social classes," and Xie Jin (like most other Chinese directors) made no films for a decade. After rehabilitation, he did the international hit Hibiscus Town...
...perfect government servant." - Then New York Rep. Charles Schumer, on Panetta's appointment to be Clinton's budget director, USA Today...
When Congress wants to get something off its chest, it can also pass a resolution to congratulate or to express sympathy. These are often fairly unanimous, like resolutions expressing sympathy for South Asian tsunami victims, or those celebrating teachers, firefighters, mothers, or Toby Keith (U.S. Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma called the country musician "a good Democrat" who "reflects his deep admiration for the troops in his hit song 'American Soldier...
...idea for the app actually came from Stanford's Flood and Black; an Apple campus rep put them in touch with Beykpour and Wasserman, who are the designated "Apple evangelists" on campus. Beykpour said that while the app launched the first day of October, it didn't really take off until two weeks later - when he and Wasserman made a spoof of the famous iPhone ad, which ran on the Jumbotron during the Oct. 11 Stanford homecoming football game. Wasserman said the duo sought approval from an Apple exec before airing the ad and got an e-mail back saying...
...point to any specific legislation he authored. He was a team player all the way through...It's going to be the temperament that Mr. LaHood brings." - Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), who called LaHood an "excellent" choice, on the skills he brings to the role, Wall Street Journal...