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...Anybody knows not to mess with me" Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
...thought about that word - ganas - for a moment and all that it meant. The word not only asked the speaker to try to give everything from his heart, but it asked what his heart was really made of. And that remained to be seen...
...clerics with control of everything, and this state of affairs is most secure when the country remains closed, with professionals kept at bay. If Iran is opened to the West, if Western-educated lawyers, businesspeople, and engineers expand their influence, in 10 years who will want a cleric as speaker of parliament or interior minister? These historical tensions are at the heart of Iran's problems of governance, and they are exacerbated today by the Bush Administration's objective of regime change. The perception that the U.S. is a threat to Iran removes any basis for agreement from the outset...
...city of high rises that today is completely deserted. If you're looking down on it from a helicopter, it's not at all apparent why this is so. But one knows there is a silent enemy lurking there." Gdansk, Poland Sept. 8, 1980 "I'm not a born speaker," Lech Walesa shouted to hundreds of people gathered outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard. "I'm just a simple worker, so forgive me if I use simple language." Simple it may be, but it is the language the striking workers of Poland's Baltic coast understand and respond...
...committee hearings even though her junior status means she is usually the last one to speak. Even more striking is the way she has reached across party lines--sponsoring foster-care legislation with Tom DeLay, then the House majority leader, and pushing health-care proposals with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Clintons' nemesis in their 1994 effort to reform health care. One of her closest friends in the chamber is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who came to national attention as one of the House managers of the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton...