"If all of a sudden, Mitch McConnell, Speaker [John] Boehner, Rush Limbaugh and 'Papa' [Bill] O'Reilly all started to say, 'You know what?
"It's like being a politician who complains about the government, and all of a sudden you're speaker of the House," Ms. Rindfuss says.
Since his sudden rise to House speaker in 1999, J. Dennis Hastert has rarely been mentioned in the same breath as Congressional powerbrokers of the past.
All of the regular stuff: Backlit keyboard, built in isight and mic, stereo speakers, mag latch, sudden motion sensor.
That's crazy!' It turns out that in fact, the features that these people were producing, maybe some of them [sound] like foreign accented speech, but some of them don't, so it wasn't like all of a sudden they became Spanish accented speakers of English.
Brazilians awoke on Tuesday to the news of the sudden about-face by the speaker, Waldir Maranhão, who on Monday was widely ridiculed and threatened with expulsion from his Progressive Party for trying to upend the impeachment process.
Indeed, Michael Capuzzo, whose account of the 1916 attacks, "Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence Broadwayay Books, $24.95) said he had been pleasantly surprised by the large turnouts at book signings and his sudden demand as a guest speaker.
All of a sudden loud music blares through the speakers; Argentines seem fond of '80s-era soundtracks and lose no opportunity to pipe them into any space.
A career politician and former speaker of the House of Representatives, his sudden rise is likely to be strengthened by Herman Cain's decision this weekend to drop out of the race following revelations about his private life.
In "Amazing Grace," a man finds that the only way to deal with his sudden, unexplained blindness is to become a motivational speaker, allowing his wife and a colleague to manage his increasingly lucrative career.
