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...everyone thinks the problem is as dire as the anonymous revolutionary quoted above. Nick P. Stanford '12 said he did not mind waiting. "It's nice to just stand still for six minutes...
...Senate seat in media reports, even as speculation swirled late last night that Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 would instead pick Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60, a longtime friend of Kennedy’s, as a stand-in for the late liberal senator...
...title - used as a snappy shorthand to identify and describe the array of policy officials swarming the West Wing. And it's hard to blame reporters; unwieldy official titles are often begging for a rebranding (Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, doesn't stand a chance against drug czar). Counts of Obama's czars range from the high teens to about 28, depending on whether such figures as State Department envoy George Mitchell and economics adviser Paul Volcker are included...
...access to her), few in the local Cantonese media - or most Hong Kongers, in general - seemed to care. Few representatives from Hong Kong's tabloid-driven press stood in the forlorn journalist pen outside the hotel. Shown a picture of Palin, a woman surnamed Ng, who operated a food stand near the Grand Hyatt, professed to not know who she was. "If she is rich and famous, then maybe she goes shopping nearby," said Ng from behind her counter. "Afterward, she can come eat my fishballs...
...income equality with fondness. Richard Stratenschulte of Dresden's Stadtmuseum says that some of the older generation occasionally look to the past because "they don't want their lives to be underestimated. It's hard to reconcile the past with the present." (Read: "Germany's Election: Divided They Stand...