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...introduces us to the town of Grover's Corners and its bashful young lovers, George Gibbs and Emily Webb--Newman is at the front of the stage for much of the show but in the shadows for most of the drama. He has no showy emotional moments, his thin voice struggles to fill the house, and there's no camera to help us fathom the depths of his twinkling eyes and brooding face...
...President Bush, she's the daughter of Chief Justice William Rehnquist--whose Supreme Court ensured there would be a second President Bush. No surprise that 16 months ago, she got a job as inspector general at the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. But her connections may be wearing thin. The General Accounting Office (GAO) began an investigation in October into charges that she has mismanaged the office. Among the allegations: that she forced out a number of senior career staff members, improperly kept a gun in her office and ran up questionable travel bills. She is also under fire...
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...details of Armitage's meeting aren't known, but there are plenty of other signs that China's patience is running thin. In October, when North Korea disclosed that it was pursuing nuclear weapons development, China's Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented a stern position paper to the all-powerful Politburo. In the past, such memorandums have cast North Korean behavior as reasonable. This time, however, Wang introduced the damning phrase "diplomatic adventurism" to describe Pyongyang's tactics, according to a Chinese policymaker familiar with the contents...
Discerning the difference between grime and what the artist meant as part of the painting—for example, a thin brown glaze—is crucial, said Khandekar...