Word: statesman
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...Harvard Crimson: You are often hailed as the American opera singer of our time, an American musical statesman. What do you think of this role...
Quincy was a statesman in the Massachusetts legislature, Mayor of Boston, the founder of Quincy Market, and the 15th president of Harvard...
...midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole in the original Police Story, Chan reenacts in milder fashion, befitting an elder statesman of knockabout melodrama. Spy's stunt coordinators (Wu Gang, who's worked with Chan for the past decade, and Bob Brown) give the star some hand-to-frying-pan legerdemain in the kitchen, which is just fancy enough to remind you how great Jackie once...
...Rosenberg's intent was to challenge Colom's legitimacy, he appears to have done the opposite. "Colom's position has been enormously strengthened. He comes out not only vindicated but looking like a statesman," says Anita Isaacs, a Guatemala expert at Haverford College who has testified before the U.S. Congress on peace building in the country. Colom, the first left-of-center President to be elected in more than 50 years, won office with the support of indigenous, rural Mayans and vowed to help alleviate widespread poverty in the countryside with programs that have angered the nation's oligarchy, including...