Word: servants
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...more than mere St. Valentine's romance (or even crass commercial motives) at play in the new film's appearance right now. A Kiss - Off the Record was made in 2003, but shelved, Voropayev explains, to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest after he became a civil servant later that year. He has since served as vice-governor in two Russian regions. Voropayev resigned in December, so he says he thought it quite proper to release this movie at last. That may be true. But Voropayev may well figure that it can't hurt to send Russians a timely...
...California at San Diego. By graduation in 1972, he had become enamored of biochemistry and decided to pursue a graduate degree instead. He ended up taking a job with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, walking the mazelike halls of the government building as a civil servant...
...Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...stances on these important issues, as well as his wealth of experience, we advise voters Republican primary voters to check the box for John McCain at the polls. He is not merely “that Senator from Arizona”—he is a public servant that has worked for the welfare of the entire country for more than a quarter of a century. A man like that is hard to find or pass...
...events, if you close your eyes, you would think a Democrat was speaking - Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton turned Southern Baptist. "I really think that a lot of people who are elected to government forget," Huckabee will say. "They are not elected to the ruling class but to the servant class." But the trick with Huckabee is that his populist rhetoric is only rarely matched with progressive proposals. He supports continuing President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the short term, and advocates the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income tax with...