Word: bureaucratic
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...play is comprised of three parts. In the first, the old primary communist leaders debate the future of Russia and the world while waiting for a speech to take place. In the second, a bureaucrat attempts to seduce Kat (Catrin M. Lloyd Bollard ’08), the guard at a bizarre storage facility for brains of important Party members, as they discuss the future of Russia and the world. He is rebuffed when her female lover, B (E.A. “Zia” Okocha ’08), shows up. The couple discusses sex, vodka and the future...
...Then a representative of the Carlyle Group, the global investment behemoth, anchored next to them. "It kept getting crazier and crazier," says Baer. "You could see Gaghan beginning to frame a picture." Part of the insanity was the disconnect between Baer and his old associates. "I'm an ex-bureaucrat," says Baer. "I have no money. I got a $70,000 advance for my book--which in their world is a three-day trip to New York. I think Gaghan saw the tension there...
...heritage chickens, happily free ranging down by the barn. I fear for their safety should an epidemic result in a government agency's decision to kill all poultry. Would I be able to maintain the diversity and beauty of my backyard flock, producing eggs for my community, if a bureaucrat decided to demonstrate the government's power to control? I'm already planning a place to hide my chickens. Sue Kolbo Red Bluff, California...
...When they met, Claudel was 17, the daughter of a provincial French bureaucrat so dedicated to his gifted children that he moved the family to Paris to further their education. (It paid off twice. Camille's younger brother would grow up to be the famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin...
...year ago GAUTAM GOSWAMI was basking in glory. The Indian press had lionized the district magistrate from the eastern state of Bihar for standing up to his political bosses in order to enforce election campaign rules. The sight of an upstanding bureaucrat efficiently coordinating relief to thousands of victims of monsoon floods in a state notorious for crime, corruption and poverty caught TIME's eye: we made him one of our heroes for 2004. But in August, the Bihar State Vigilance Investigation Bureau charged the 39-year-old civil servant and 10 alleged accomplices with embezzling millions of dollars...