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...Arieh Raviv Haifa, Israel Clinton in 2008? "Can Hillary join the club?" [March 20] stated that Senator Clinton is "known to misread a crowd sometimes" and claimed that at a Kennedy Center benefit for aids last fall, "she harangued an audience already deeply engaged with the epidemic with an awkward demand that they do even more." As the event's organizer, I can tell you that about half the audience of 500 was not in any way "engaged with the epidemic." They were invited to the event in an effort to get them involved. Clinton eloquently called on the corporate...
...deny it: Harvard students are really, really awkward...
...Bush held his first official t?te-?-t?te with then Prime Minister Paul Martin, in the Mexican city of Monterrey in January 2004, he called Martin a "straightforward fellow." Two years later, Bush used the same phrase to describe Stephen Harper at their get-acquainted chat in Canc?n, Mexico. Awkward coincidence? Maybe, but the U.S. President evidently regards straightforwardness as the highest praise he can bestow on his counterparts--at least until he decides it no longer fits the bill...
...Hillary Join the Club?" [March 20] stated that Senator Clinton is "known to misread a crowd sometimes" and claimed that at a Kennedy Center benefit for AIDS last fall, "she harangued an audience already deeply engaged with the epidemic with an awkward demand that they do even more." As the event's organizer, I can tell you that about half the audience of 500 was not in any way "engaged with the epidemic." They were invited to the event in an effort to get them involved. Clinton eloquently called on the corporate and government leaders in the room to work...
...nearly 11 years he's occupied the Elysée Palace, French President Jacques Chirac has promoted social and economic reform, yet shied away from the conflicts that invariably result. Last week he attempted another awkward balancing act after France saw more huge protests, some of them violent, against a new law allowing workers younger than 26 to be fired without cause within their first two years on the job. Thousands of students staging public sit-ins around the country booed as Chirac, speaking on TV, rejected their demands to repeal the law, then continued jeering as he ordered ruling...