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...accuses his opponent (“Tinny Tiny Timmy Toomey, as I try not to call him”) of taking orders from Thomas M. Finneran, the Democratic speaker of the house...
Gross attended the council meeting as a guest speaker and used his time to summarize the curricular review’s formal report, written by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, which is scheduled to be released today. Wolcowitz’ report is based on the findings of the four working groups of the curricular review...
...effervescence required by the ceremonies of modern politics, John Kerry's rise to prominence is difficult to explain. His is a solemn New England sensibility. I have never seen him experience a moment of spontaneous wit; his nonspontaneous attempts at humor are ghastly. He is not a very compelling speaker. Indeed, when attempting to answer the most basic of questions--his position on the war in Iraq, for example--he tends to entwine himself in endless codicils and subclauses. And yet the Senator from Massachusetts breezed through the Democratic presidential primaries this year and became his party's presumptive nominee...
Abizaid's brain is the fulcrum in the war on terrorism. He oversees the world's toughest "neighborhood," spanning 25 countries from the Horn of Africa to the Himalayas. An Arabic speaker of Lebanese descent, he won the U.S. military's most difficult job last July. Although troops embrace Abizaid's muddy-boots mien, his soft-spoken demeanor gives him a cerebral air more common to the campus than to combat. The roots of terrorism "certainly don't lend themselves easily to military solutions," Abizaid says over breakfast. He knows that winning the peace in Iraq will be far more...
...businesspeople and investors, she's a household name. That might be because Carly Fiorina turns the wheel at one of the icons of the technology era, Hewlett-Packard. It might be because she's a compelling speaker and an imaginative marketer. It might be because she is one of only eight women leading a FORTUNE 500 company. But as the person who engineered the $19 billion merger with Compaq--and fought off a shareholder challenge--she was guaranteed star status...