Word: abroader
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...DeMint are expected to grill Clinton on the disclosure requirements that she and her husband agreed to in lengthy negotiations last month. In the end, however, the scrutiny by Clinton's colleagues on Capitol Hill will seem a light challenge compared with those she will soon face abroad...
...East Room of the White House, Bush is set to dole out a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Blair, Britain's former Prime Minister. Blair has earned the bauble - previous recipients include Nelson Mandela and Doris Day - "for [his] efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad," according to the White House. Blair's spokesman seemed to tacitly acknowledge that Blair is being feted as much for the exercise of hard power as soft, describing the medal as a "great honor" that "reflects the true courage of the men and women of the British armed forces...
...George W. Bush. The left has offered disastrous, citing the damage they see inflicted on the country by Bush's foreign policy and economic stewardship. The right has countered with secure, arguing that another 9/11 was prevented by Bush's taking the fight to terrorists at home and abroad. But in what the White House says will be his final press conference on Monday, President Bush himself provided the word everyone has been looking for: disappointment...
...experience with Continental was just the opposite. As I approached the check-in counter, laden with two large suitcases to study abroad, the Continental counter person noted that one of my bags was one pound over the limit. But she followed up by saying my other bag was ten pounds below the limit. It was illogical, she explained, to reduce me to the humiliation of opening my bags right there and transferring one extra pound of items to the other bag. I was saved. I was loved. And for the cheap fare I had paid, I was shocked...
...Despite the increasingly anxious calls from abroad for a halt to the fighting, the war has acquired its own momentum - and civilian casualties are rising in a death toll now close to 700. Red Cross workers, who after days of trying finally gained access to the badly hit Zeitoun neighborhood on Thursday, say they discovered "four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on their own. In all, there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses." An Israeli army position was only 87 yards (80 m) away...