Word: servant
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...Home Secretary for Baluchistan, the all-powerful and mercurial bureaucrat who decides which journalists are permitted to travel to the Afghan border. Along with two French photographers, I was finally allowed into his office. We weren't the only ones: aid workers, Japanese and Lebanese journalists, a senior civil servant from Islamabad, and a few tribal elders were all waiting, too. All of us were sitting in straight-backed chairs along the wall like humble supplicants in an Ottoman court, while the Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded phone calls from the governor and the garrison commander...
...supporting players also lend great energy to the production, commanding the stage without upsetting the balance of the show. Particularly noteworthy are Peter A. Carey, comically masterful as a lustful servant, and Beth Gotha, familiar without being a stereotype, as George’s mother...
...occupy a small part of everyone’s day, one is pleasantly surprised to reach for the iron cast toilet paper holder, aside which sits a feature we all have dreamed of: “the buzzer”. This doorbell-like utility used to summon thy man servant eliminates the fear that at some point we may need to knock on the stall next to us and utter those prolific words, “Do you have a square to spare?” And yet, the toilet is just one of the many jewels in this lavatorial...
...That is the kind of undiplomatic talk that grates on Israel and the West but has made Moussa, who turns 65 this week, perhaps the most adored public servant in the Arab world. A career diplomat who held posts in India and at the United Nations, he is a man as famous for his hearty laugh as his explosive temper. In 10 years as Egypt's Foreign Minister, he sharply criticized U.S. support for Israel and Israel's treatment of Palestinians in interviews, speeches and finger-wagging lectures to visiting envoys. (His rows with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine...
...surface, we have reason to hope that Summers would agree with Wilson, a fellow public servant and university president. You may have read in the fall greetings of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 how, for instance, Summers has already spent a few hours with students and staff at Phillips Brooks House and visited the Mission Hill Summer Program, one of the dozen urban camps staffed and run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). In addition, several weeks ago he held audience at the Public Service Leadership Summit, a three-day event sponsored...