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Over coffee before a speech in a San Diego hotel, Whitman ticks through her plans. "Let's try to get a few things done at 100%, as opposed to trying to solve every problem," she says. To that end, she proposes three ideas: creating jobs by slashing taxes and regulation; improving the education system by grading schools and launching more charter schools; and reducing government spending, primarily by firing thousands of state workers. (She won't say which ones.) And - surprise - she intends to reap big savings from the state budget by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" through the introduction...
...Jenny,” he said in the speech, “you have been like a sister to me – you are a sister to me — and it’s going to be hard imagining The New York Times without...
Chan also shared with FlyBy a copy of the speech he gave at the staff sendoff meeting this past Wednesday evening...
...make the most emotional and difficult announcement of his life without a script. Not only did Jenny Sanford avoid looking like a fool for literally standing by her man, she didn't have to be associated with what quickly devolved into a p.r. train wreck. (His rambling, 18-minute speech included weeping, a mention of his lifelong love of camping and a "surreal" conversation he'd recently had with his father-in-law.) (See the top 10 political gaffes...
Acknowledging that the skills taught in the workshop could apply to both men and women, Malisheski noted that “upspeak”—a speech pattern in which one ends a sentence with an upward inflection, making it sound like a question—is more common among the female population...