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...come the crowd attending a convention of rural electric cooperatives in a Dallas hotel last week - men whose weathered faces spoke of long days riding tractors and branding cattle - was getting such a kick out of the afternoon's speaker, the African-American Democratic nominee for Senator? Ron Kirk had them applauding from the moment he told them, "I sure wish Enron ran their business the way y'all run yours." By the time he had finished up with his line about giving the capital a dose of "what it's like to be on the front lines of problem...
...Carpenter, a panel speaker who worked with Elizabeth Dole in her failed bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, simply answers that the rules are different for women candidates than they are for men. Eleanor Clift, whose book Madam President examines the barriers to women’s executive leadership, agreed that the standards are drastically different for women, but she added, “women should not have to apologize for wanting a seat at the table” considering they make up half of the population and vote in greater numbers than...
...Even a native speaker would have difficulty understanding the old system,” said Ma Xiaohe, a librarian at the Harvard-Yenching Library...
...stirring moral lecture, but critics lined up to pillory the limited enforcement measures Bush proposed to rectify the situation. Even his own party wants more; by Thursday the Senate was debating tougher proposals to protect investors, and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert endorsed those, rather than Bush's more limited remedies. Investors appeared unimpressed with either; the Dow lost nearly 700 points for the week, and closed Friday below...
...speaker was very much committed to his audience throughout the presentation,” Lewis said...