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...Cinemax-style sexploitation efforts. In her 40s and 50s, she appeared as the hostess, and smiling dominatrix, of soft-core loops (Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Fantasies, etc.) that still play on late-night pay cable. Perhaps her strangest career move came during the 2004 presidential election, when she ran as Vice President on the Personal Choice Party ticket; she received 946 votes...
...crisis to point out what they regard as flaws in Western capitalism. On a visit to Europe in January, Premier Wen Jiabao called China a "great power" and then criticized "an unsustainable model'' of development in the West that partnered a lack of savings and "blind pursuit of profit." Vice President Xi Jinping, on a recent trip to Mexico, blasted his hosts for harping on China's human-rights record, saying "there are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country...
...This could escalate violence in this part of the world, no question about it," Vice Admiral William Gortney, commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet out of Bahrain, said after Phillips was released. U.S. officials explained their actions saying Phillips' life was in imminent danger when the snipers struck and that they had no other option. They say negotiations with a group of Somali elders had broken down earlier in the day, and that securing Phillips' freedom was the top priority...
...School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a role she assumes at time of great financial turmoil for Harvard’s schools.But colleagues say Murray’s take-charge attitude and experience in management at Bell Labs—where she served as a senior vice president while it was also experiencing budgetary woes—are strong qualifications for the challenge of building up the fledgling school in an era of restricted resources.“She was very bold in the kind of things she would do,” says Bell colleague David J. Bishop...
Cheney, Dick • Vice President Biden begs to differ - "he is dead wrong" - with...