Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Introducing his former student and colleague, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Charles Fried called Breyer "not just another smart Harvard Law School professor...
...speak Cantonese. Just ask the Jackie fans who track down his movies in the Chinatowns of U.S. cities or visit specialized video stores. "Jackie Chan's work is as popular with our customers as anything by Orson Welles or Francis Coppola," says Meg Johnson, buyer for Videots, a smart Santa Monica outlet. Finding a Chan film under its multiplicity of titles is one challenge. Another can be watching it, in washed-out, nth-generation dupes with indifferent dubbing or Japanese subtitles (or none at all) and with the sides of the wide-screen images lopped...
...specific anecdotes may be new, but the former Arkansas Governor portrayed in the meticulously detailed First in His Class, a forthcoming Clinton biography by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, is a familiar one. The book depicts Clinton as a lover and a fighter and also a smart, eager-to-please, indecisive political animal who was White House bound from early on. But the book, which is due out in March, resuscitates some more troubling issues as well: that as an elected official Clinton used state troopers to help him get sex, and as a presidential hopeful he tried...
...official--or informally official, as Dole put it. Though he had hinted broadly that he planned to run in an interview with David Frost aired earlier that night on PBS, Dole's more emphatic declaration on the highly rated Late Show--and his witty bantering with the host--was smart politics. ``Well, I'm going to run. For President. In '96,'' Dole said in his familiar growl. ``I thought about it a lot,'' the Senate majority leader added, ``and I think every country ought to have a President.'' The studio audience loved it. And loved it even more when Dole...
Manning strains credulity, though, when he sayshe "knows nothing" about employees like Pedro whoare working long hours with no overtime pay. Thelabor relations director is a smart man who rarelymisses a trick. And if he didn't know aboutsomething, it's likely that Conway would tell him.Several sources insist the Harvard labor relationsofficial and the 254 business agent are close...