Word: secretiveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...focus of a luncheon event at Harvard Hillel yesterday, giving attendees a chance to question the former U.S. Treasury Secretary about hot-button economic issues in advance of today’s national elections. Summers, who currently serves as an advisor to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, made no secret of his allegiances when asked to offer his opinions on the platforms of the two major party candidates. “I can only answer that question with no pretense of objectivity,” Summers said at one point, drawing laughter from the nearly 30 people in attendance...
Meanwhile in Kenya..., 7:00 a.m. E.T. Kenya is making no secret about its political allegiance. After all, it is the country where Barack Obama's father was born. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.) This is the place that briefly renamed its Senator Beer after Obama, where an Obama reggae song is insanely popular, and whose buses are plastered with Obama decals. "U.S. Poll: Why Obama is the world's choice," screamed the front-page headline from Monday's Daily Nation newspaper. "Democrat widely seen as the only leader who can change the way America relates...
There was more bad news for the embattled government of Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Monday, when a Miami court convicted a Venezuelan secret agent of attempting to cover up an alleged illegal donation to her 2007 election campaign by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. Justice Minister Anibal Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely...
...CONNECT, ACT, VOTE by Declare Yourself This book, aimed at teenagers, includes essays by 50 people on the importance of democratic participation. Apparently, Tyra Banks contributed. Now this next bit isn’t quite related to the book, but here is how Ms. Banks revealed her biggest beauty secret on “The Tyra Banks Show:” “I’m about to reveal my BIGGEST BEAUTY SECRET EVER! EVER!! YES!!!...Now during the break we had some really hunky boys that brought out these very special boxes to our studio audience...
...Among gay activists, the Cabinet is revered as a kind of secret gay Super Friends, a homosexual justice league that can quietly swoop in wherever anti-gay candidates are threatening and finance victories for the good guys. Rumors abound in gay political circles about the group's recondite influence; some of the rumors are even true. For instance, the Cabinet met in California last year with two sitting governors, Brian Schweitzer of Montana and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, both Democrats; political advisers who work for the Cabinet met with a third Democratic governor, Wisconsin's Jim Doyle. The Cabinet...