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Evita is not so much about Argentine politics as about the English obsession with class. Eva, the illegitimate daughter of an estate manager whose funeral her servant mother was forbidden to attend, gets back at the middle class with her upwardly nubile conquest of the military aristocracy. Our guide in this revenge melodrama is a sardonic, Rice-like narrator (Antonio Banderas), offering keys to the allure of Santa Evita, first lady, holy whore...
...remarks at the dinner, Kennedy praised Brown as a principled public servant who never forgot his roots...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I am honest and square...I want to be a servant to all people...
Richardson, a rising star in the Democratic Party, has been a hugely successful public servant. His district has sent him to Congress eight times (in 1994 with 64% of the vote). And his President has sent him on a series of sensitive diplomatic missions: he secured the release of U.S. citizens from North Korea and Iraq, and this year traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of three political prisoners. For his work he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...
...poetry of politics and governing the prose, Dole prefers the prose. She'd rather be poring over briefing books than pressing the flesh. "She's not a political person," says Mari Will. "He loves to talk about politics. She doesn't. She is very much a public servant...