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Three white men in Sunday best dark blue suits will stand behind the podiums. The backdrop will be color coordinated with the rug. Each power tie will be carefully Knotted--strong colors but no too flashy. The men will smile their shining white teeth and the camerapeople will worry about the glare. All the face will be carefully pancaked to prevent sweat--remember Nixon. The moderator and the panelists will be introduced and the audience will clap politely...
Fisher says that he is working from the assumption that the atmosphere at the Law School is often confrontational and adversarial. "The goal is not just to beone big feely-touchy happy family with all theproblems swept under the rug," he says. "Studentsand faculty should develop the practice of beingsincere, open and respectful...
Saying that he cannot resist the call of his volunteers, though, Perot pledged run on. He has stunned the experts with his popularity and pulled the rug out from his volunteers. Now, it seems, he's brushed the rug off and laid it back on the floor...
...This is one that evidently slipped under the rug," Center for Marine Conservation spokesperson Thomas M. Miller said yesterday...
...tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...