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Another group that I’ve come to appreciate through my interactions is the secret service agents, especially in light of my previous stereotype of them as rigid and humorless. Like the advance staff, the agents work long and thankless hours with an incredible level of professionalism...
...highest executive authority yet his voice doesn't count for much without the support of the member states. And when the E.U. succeeds, national politicians rush in to take the credit. Now, with the expansion of the E.U. making consensus even harder to achieve, the job is becoming more thankless than ever. That was spectacularly clear at the June 17 summit, when the Union's leaders failed to agree on the successor to Romano Prodi, whose term ends in October. As Time went to press, the national leaders appeared close to agreement on a compromise candidate, the mild-mannered Portuguese...
...first Warner years, Reagan shuttled between supporting roles in A-level films and starring parts in B's. Brother Rat, set in the Virginia Military Institute, handed him the thankless role of the one sensible cadet in a bunch of college cutups. He was a radio announcer, again, in Boy Meets Girl--a good bit part, letting him display a frantic aplomb at a movie premiere as chaos erupts and he tries both to describe it and to rein...
...publishing 24 pages each week, there are a lot of little details that need attending to that most readers don’t even think about. These tasks, often thankless and annoying, have been taken up by the people on this page and next, and have kept the magazine running smoothly, reading well and looking good for the past year. Frankly, FM couldn’t have done it without them and this is our little, self-indulgent way of saying thank...
...MCAT. But for seniors who plan on earning a living before they turn 25, it’s time to face up to the challenge. There’s only one way to score that Manhattan apartment where you can hang your Harvard diploma without additional years of thankless toil: sell out, and go into I-banking or consulting...