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...media’s attention largely fixed on questions of Kim Jong-Il’s mental stability and the accuracy of a study claiming the death of 600,000 Iraqis since the American invasion, the president was busy trampling the nation’s constitution. Shielded by a banner announcing “Protecting America,” Bush signed the act after its predictable success in Congress last month, reasserting his right to deny constitutional protections to enemies of the state...
...important races where they cross-endorsed a mainstream candidate, votes under their aegis even proved decisive. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), for example, was nominated by both the Democratic and Working Families parties in 2000, and a significant chunk of her votes came under the latter banner...
...chairman of The Yale Banner that puts out the yearbook and lots of other publications on campus...
...hired by the Bush administration. One of these consultants, Steve Herbits, was hired by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld as a “consultant with a license to analyze current problems.” In May 2003, three weeks after Bush gave a press conference under a banner reading ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Herbits told Rumsfeld that the administration’s six months of planning for the Iraq invasion had been a failure, according to Woodward. “This is not Nancy Pelosi, this is not some think tank, this...
Play out they did, and those who wondered what an Australian orchestra could possibly offer the Japanese, famously finicky in their classical music appreciation, were immediately answered in the cross-cultural fanfare of Brisbane composer Liza Lim's Flying Banner (after Wang To). And upon completion of their spectacular rendition of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, the orchestra received the kind of review money couldn't buy. Attending the opening concert in Tokyo was Crown Prince Naruhito, himself an accomplished viola player. At a supper afterwards, he sipped Australian wine while chatting with a small group of musicians. "He said...