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As Kate Mundy, the stick-in-the-mud schoolteacher who presides over four younger, unmarried sisters in 1936 Donegal, Ireland, she holds her facial muscles tense and signals with her eyes her exhaustion from keeping them so fiercely in place.
On the attack, Paul Gigot ( NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) and Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) claimed that Reno presides over a "politicized" Justice Department that had "changed" her mind on appointing a counsel (Fred Barnes, The McLaughlin Group ). Defending Reno's decision was Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ), who said independent counsels are "not independent" because they're appointed by a partisan panel.
Here presides the Jade Goddess, daughter of the mountain god, who cures blindness and answers the prayers of the childless.
Over this amazing cornucopia presides Emperor Akihito.
He presides over what Belgians regard as "the ideal family ...