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...When each speaker had finished their presentation, Nye offered Summers the chance to respond to Meltzer. With a smile on his face Summers called aspects of Meltzer’s argument factually inaccurate and dissected its failures...
...stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores of ships run aground, groaning as their rusting hulls shift on the sand. Look closer and you'll see thousands of workers moving like hermit crabs across the oil-slicked beach, dismantling the vessels sheet by metal sheet. They chant and smile while they carry the monstrous slabs of tonnage for as little as 13 an hour. "Singing makes us forget the pain," says a young laborer, his tanned body smeared with grease...
...Petite, girlishly slender and wearing a suit of iridescent ink-blue silk, Arroyo, 53, is nearly dwarfed by her phalanx of aides and bodyguards as she strides, with her fashion-model smile, into a vast, wood-paneled living room in MalacaNang. She exudes the haughtiness of someone for whom privilege is a birthright: Gloria grew up literally roaming the corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college...
...Case in point: I went into a card store just last week, looking for something to send to my grandmother, who has not been feeling well lately. I knew a card would make her smile, and I wanted something loving but not sappy, written in clear bold letters, not that terrible flowery script. I wanted something she could read and display with some pride. I did not want to send her a card that would make her blush and which she would probably feel the need to hide somewhere. Unfortunately, thirty minutes into my lunch hour, that's pretty much...
Lady luck has always seemed to smile on Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde. Born into the wealthy De Wendel family, inheritors of an 18th century iron and steel dynasty, Seillière rose effortlessly through the ranks of France's ruling élite. After taking his degree from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he launched a promising diplomatic career, served on the staffs of two Prime Ministers and seemed destined for a privileged life in the upper echelons of the French civil service...