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...both the scholarship side and the community side,” Huey said. “I’m hoping to keep things on the same track.” Unlike many other student groups, top leaders at the Law Review do not take office with a specific agenda; rather, Huey said, the president’s primary focus is “to put out the best journal possible.” Huey steps into a storied office, which has served as a stepping stone to future success for many Law School graduates, including President Barack Obama...
...pacifist talk belied a sinister agenda, one that would remain hidden to the outside world for years. When the Khmer Rouge succeeded in capturing the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in 1975, they evacuated the entire population of the city - more than 2.5 million people - to camps in the countryside. Similar evacuations took place every time the Khmer Rouge took over a new city...
...doesn't so much matter that by all appearances Gregg is no gallant, that he seemed to actually be telling the truth when he said the reason he got cold feet at the altar was that he couldn't bring himself to fully support the President's agenda. What matters is that he dumped the President. He was picked to be the next Commerce Secretary, he accepted the appointment, and then he walked away - breaking the news, as it turned out, at the very moment Obama was appearing at an event in Peoria, Ill., to build support...
...words through a press release, suggesting that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda." Then Gibbs twisted the rhetorical blade. "We regret that he had a change of heart," the spokesman said. Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated the ability of one of their own to embarrass the President. "Senator Gregg made a principled decision," crowed House Republican leader John Boehner in a press release. "The Administration...
...faces in moving beyond the partisan and ideological divisions that have long defined national politics. Gregg declined to specify the issues or events that made him reconsider or why he had only just now realized that it wasn't a good fit when his differences with the Administration's agenda were never a secret. He was equally vague about the theory that he hadn't been happy that the White House had moved to take away some of the Commerce Department's traditional control of the Census after Democratic activists voiced concerns about a Republican overseeing the politically charged process...