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With his stentorian gaze and minimalist technique, Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988) presided over the Leningrad Philharmonic for almost 50 years...
The story highlights the basic fact raised (and not denied by Clinton) at the press conference: While Clinton has presided over a historically diverse Cabinet, all 26 people who've held the top seven White House jobs under him have been white, and 21 of them have been men.
Bob Dole, who presided over the Republican National Committee while it stood by its man until the last, said it best at Nixon's funeral: "The second half of the 20 th century will be known as the age of Nixon."
Gay, masochistic, and happily married, Kinsey presided, gurulike, over a utopian, sexually experimental community in Indiana.
I wish that the Catholic League, or for that matter anybody, seemed to give a fuck about the fact that W. has presided over a state that's executing people at such an ungodly (as it were) rate, some of whose attorneys did things like fall asleep during their trials.