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...Even before his Law & Order depiction of district attorney Arthur Branch, Thompson nearly always played variations on the same character - a straight-talking, tough-minded, wise Southerner - basically a version of what his supporters say is his true political self. And he is often cast as a person in power - a military official, the White House chief of staff, the head of the CIA, a Senator or even the President of the U.S. It could be called the Cary Grant approach to politics. As the legendary actor once explained his own style and success, "I pretended to be somebody...
...husband's case and to discuss an open letter she had written to the Russian government. Louise Christian, a prominent British human rights lawyer, who accompanied Mrs. Litvinenko to the meeting, read her notes of the meeting to TIME. She says Fedotov stated that an unfortunate shadow has been cast on the reputation of the Russian government by the case. He said the government is interested in finding the truth and investigating the case properly, but that it was a matter for the Russian federal prosecutor to handle...
...yearly Strategic Economic Dialogue meetings between the U.S. and China were meant to be high-minded affairs, where long-term, structural issues of interest to both countries would be thoughtfully discussed. But no matter how much U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi try to cast this week's summit as an intellectual exercise, the main issue confronting them is by no means academic. China's trade surplus with the rest of the world is now at a projected $400 billion, and there is no sign that it is going to shrink anytime soon. The surplus...
...yesterday, over half of Harvard’s 250 security guards had cast their votes; at the time, the votes were unanimous in favor of granting the leaders’ authority to call a strike, according to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 615’s Director of Organizing Lauren L. Jacobs...
...last could hardly be greater: in February 2006, while high school seniors were gearing up to pick their future school, Harvard’s president resigned after a protracted battle with Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors that made headlines around the world; this February, the national press largely cast Harvard in a rosy glow after the University selected its first woman president in its 371-year history. And yet, the admissions yield figures for 2007 and 2006 were separated by just six-tenths of a percent...