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...been told for years that I speak too quickly, so I should slow down. Then when I slow down, people say, "No, you need to speak more quickly." The content is what's really important to me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not nearly as good a speaker as the President. And certainly a lot of people in America agreed with me on that...
...called Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, which is on the New York Times best-seller list, and the ratings for her TV show are among the highest at CNBC. She promotes savings accounts for TD Ameritrade and hawks identity-theft kits on her website. Requests for her to speak, at $80,000 a pop, are flowing in from all over the world. It's a sign of just how bad things are that watching her is so compelling--in a rubbernecking sort of way--because people have done such reckless things with their money...
...else but the Nanny would roll into Lamont at four on a Saturday afternoon decked out in knee-high boots, dark sunglasses, and a fur coat? No one, of course, but Fran Drescher herself. Drescher came to speak to the crowd in the Lamont Forum Room about her experience as a cancer survivor and her book, “Cancer Schmancer.” “I’ve reinvented myself since ‘The Nanny,’” Drescher explained. “I am a uterine cancer survivor, but it took...
...mean anything from secretly intercepted telephone calls and e-mails to the volume of communications traffic at a particular time over a particular line. A more technical definition of chatter might be the interception of any unguarded electronic communication between two people who expect privacy - people more likely to speak frankly and convey information they wouldn't in a public forum...
...Democrats are defending the Treasury Secretary against the bad reviews. "Every Administration official responding to this economic crisis, especially Treasury Secretary Geithner given his role, is working under the equivalent of an electron microscope that dramatically magnifies everything," says Rep. Jim McDermott, of Washington. "The Secretary's actions will speak much louder than his words and that is the ultimate test of reassurance the American People and Congress will judge him by. In the meantime, let's give the man a chance to lead...