What if it were the story of a woman who lost herself in her thirties, who was changed by a poisonous, powerful love affair, and who emerged, finally, surrounded by her friends?
Had they eschewed Big's rescue of Carrie, she suggests, "Sex and the City" would have been "the story of a woman who lost herself in her thirties, who was changed by a poisonous, powerful love affair, and who emerged, finally, surrounded by her friends" — which is to say, a story that might have earned more comparisons to the darker cable-television dramas that followed in its wake.
Although Grossman's request was not granted, he was given an audience with Mikhail Suslov, Khrushchev's powerful cultural-affairs minister.
Fresh pressure on the Met came on Tuesday night from MPs on the powerful home affairs committee.
And in May this year parliament's powerful home affairs committee called for counter-terrorism control to be moved to the NCA.
Four parliamentarians come from Gush Etzion, including the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the Knesset speaker and the head of its powerful foreign affairs and defence committee.
"One quite often hears that theology is not is a science, and that the appearance of theological faculties in universities is a nonsense," said Metropolitan Hilarion (pictured), head of the church's powerful external-affairs arm.
Its foreign minister chairs the powerful general affairs and external relations council or GAERC (elegantly known as the Gurk), which prepares summits as well as policies on such matters as Iran and Kosovo.
When the Kronos Quartet hit its stride during the late '80s, its concerts were powerful, absorbing affairs, not despite their extra-musical trappings but in part because of them.
Some French MEPs including Pervenche Berès, head of the powerful economic-affairs committee want Mr Barroso replaced.Latent antagonisms, stemming from the fact that Mr Barroso supported the Iraq war and is regarded as an economic liberal, are coming to the surface.
