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...find it hard to have close personal relationships with people because of your job? Are you in a relationship? I'm not in a relationship. That's not to say that I don't want to be. But I am a professional liar. That's what undercover work is. I'll meet someone, and I'll say I have a job I don't talk about. And all of a sudden I'm a really weird guy. The result is that I don't have much of a personal life...
...Have you ever walked away from an assignment because it's just too hard to be there? Never...
...that work with the Senate Banking Committee have expressed concern about Dodd's small, overburdened staff. For example, the Senator has left vacant the top staff position on the committee since his committee director, Shawn Maher, left in December to work for the Obama Administration. "I guess it's hard to find staff. Would you want to go work for someone who might lose his job in two years?" says one financial executive who deals with the committee. "He doesn't have a lot of staff. How he gets work done, that's been a puzzlement...
...thing Dodd has done of late is tack hard to populism. He has held hearings on credit-card abuses and introduced stringent legislation to prevent companies from luring consumers into dangerous amounts of debt. Last October, Senate majority leader Harry Reid took the unusual move of overriding a Democratic hold on a bill after Dodd tried to block an extension of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping powers over concerns from the left about granting telecom giants retroactive immunity for working with the Administration. Most notably, Dodd, against the wishes of the White House, slipped into the stimulus bill...
...Hard work helped, too. Hassanzade began a training regime that he still follows today: two-hour sessions six nights a week with Cardoso, supplemented by nearly ten additional hours per week of running and jumping rope on his own. The neophyte to savate - which permits blows with the feet as well as the hands - became one of its fastest-rising competitors. Less than two years after he discovered the sport, Hassanzade launched his run for the national junior crown last November, bagging his first of seven straight victories in just two rounds. (See pictures of future sporting stars...