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...Kumar and his team to run the system on sounder business principles, even as it stuck to what Kumar calls IR's "social obligations" to its passengers, its 1.4 million employees and 1.1 million pensioners. Yadav's standing has soared as a result. "A person who was considered a clown of Indian politics is now being seen as a professor of Harvard graduates," says Kumar...
...voice was hoarse. His cheeks were splotched with wine-red daubs of what looked like clown rouge. He seemed a bit disheveled, wearing a light gray-green suit and a garish yellow tie, a costume more fitting for a used-car salesman than a former President. An aide told me that Clinton had pulled a Clinton the night before. Unwilling to stop campaigning after his last event, he had gone to the cafeteria at the University of South Carolina. About 15 kids were there, and they started texting their friends. Pretty soon several hundred kids had gathered, and Clinton held...
...voice was hoarse. His cheeks were splotched with wine-red daubs of what looked like clown rouge. He seemed a bit disheveled, wearing a light gray-green suit and a garish yellow tie, a costume more fitting for a used-car salesman than a former President. An aide told me that Clinton had pulled a Clinton the night before. Unwilling to stop campaigning after his last event, he had gone to the cafeteria at the University of South Carolina. About 15 kids were there, and they started texting their friends. Pretty soon several hundred kids had gathered, and Clinton held...
...After Romney's ethereal performance in Newton, I drove to Indianola, where Huckabee was holding a clown-car event, trying to stuff hundreds of supporters and dozens of camera crews into an upstairs room meant to hold about 20. Huckabee had lost control of his Christian calm and spent most of his stump speech railing against Romney. This was pretty shocking for a primary, where attacks tend to be muffled because the losers eventually support the winner. Huckabee was particularly miffed by Romney's ad about the pardons. He told the crowd the story of one pardon - an Iraq...
...have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president of the below-the-line workers' union, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), who likens the WGA leadership to "a huge clown car that's only missing the hats and horns." (IATSE currently represents the reality and animation writers the WGA wants to count...