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...most part favors carrots over sticks. She has a near eidetic memory for peoples' names and faces; she can tell you the names of nearly every one of her members' children and grandchildren. She sends hand-written cards congratulating parents on their offspring's milestones. "She's very gracious, courteous. She was raised in a family of politicians," says Rep, George Miller, a long time confidante and fellow Californian. "Illness, sickness, births, graduations and acceptances to college: she celebrates people's good fortune." (Take a glimpse into the world of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Her Way: Pelosi's Powers of Persuasion | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

...Everyone was very courteous, and there was no open hostility, but at the same time, afterwards I did have people coming to me saying they didn’t believe a word of it because humans were created only a few thousand years...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Richard W. Wrangham | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...practice, this means more than just courteous gestures. At almost every stage, Obama has tried to avoid blunt confrontation in favor of something more cooperative. He stopped short of offering an unabashed defense of human rights the way Hillary Clinton did on her 1995 visit to China or a hard-line demand for democracy the way former Vice President Dick Cheney did in Lithuania in 2006. Instead, he has sought at every meeting to focus on common ground, hoping for what he once described as a clearing away of "old preconceptions or ideological dogmas" so that nations will be more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Asia Trip: The Deference Debate | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...woman went to a HUPD officer to ask permission to take a picture, then returned to the statue and demanded that she be allowed to photograph John Harvard without the neos in the picture. Being courteous, well-bred young men and women, they obliged...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg | Title: Hasty Pudding Shields John Harvard from Dangerous Tourists | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...woman went to a HUPD officer to ask permission to take a picture, then returned to the statue and demanded that she be allowed to photograph John Harvard without the neos in the picture. Being courteous, well-bred young men and women, they obliged...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg | Title: Hasty Pudding Shields John Harvard from Dangerous Tourists | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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