Word: servants
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...city mayor must be all things to all people: traffic cop, fix-it man, novelist. Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father...
...Mahfouz was born in the now almost unimaginable year of 1911, in Cairo, and for the rest of his long life he rarely left that city. He worked as a civil servant in Egypt's ministry of culture, but as one of his colleagues remarked today, he was put on earth to write. And write he did: in his lifetime he produced on the order of 50 books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece...
...television and in speeches in coming days, party officials and strategists plan to talk about their respect for Lieberman as a distinguished public servant and argue that Lamont's victory represents the end of the long tradition of strong-on-national-defense Democratic leaders in the mold of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy. The GOP plans to try to broaden the argument beyond Connecticut, a liberal stronghold, and work to convince viewers and voters that Democratic nominees across the country have more in common with Michael Moore and liberal bloggers than Main Street America...
...Enter Anson Chan, a charismatic 66-year-old who was a top civil servant under Tung and the last colonial Governor, Chris Patten. Chan's return to the political arena has caused a commotion. Known as "Hong Kong's conscience" for her steadfast support of the city's freedoms, Chan was mobbed by supporters and reporters when she joined this year's protest; as many as 1 in 4 demonstrators said her participation encouraged them to march. Last week, Chan gave her most detailed speech yet, criticizing the slow pace of democratic reform, and announced that she'd form...
...himself with the modesty of a small-town mullah. He receives visitors in spare, undecorated offices in downtown Tehran and often runs meetings seated on the floor and wearing a plain black robe. Billboards with his portrait are ubiquitous in the capital, depicting Khamenei more as a rumpled civil servant than a revolutionary, with thick glasses and rough, checkered scarf. "When you talk to him, you feel you're dealing with a worldly man," says a senior Iranian official. "And everything is in his hands, now more than ever...