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...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 professor (she taught economics at the Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively...
...offices from which they can e-mail, store private documents in safe files and do their banking. "When you start looking at 800 million people and start looking at one continent rather than separate countries, you start getting extremely excited," says an animated Makatiani, jumping up from his office sofa. "You say to yourself, ?You know, I can do what Bill Gates or Marc Andreessen or Steve Case have done in America.' Because you look at Africa as a United States of Africa, as one network; and then the opportunities are endless." At least if you're patient...
...musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...noticed that you were drinking quite a bit of the wine and I wanted to know if you would like to talk about that. She would say “sure” and we would sit down on the red sofa in the gallery and get to the heart of her alcoholism. She would cry and have an epiphany, realizing that white wine is not the solution to her frustrations. I would walk her out, feeling as if I had done my duty...
...musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...