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...been written about Barack Obama's learning curve in his first 100 days in office - understandably, given his rapid ascent. But if Obama is a rookie acting like a veteran, Pelosi, a career politician, has all too often filled the role of the bumbler in 2009. In her initial press conference on what the CIA told her, she fumbled through her notes, departed the podium, returned to the podium, departed again and accused the CIA of lying to her - a charge she had clarified the next day by blaming the Bush Administration. To call it a disastrous public performance would...
...Vienna. Originally booked for a year, many performances remained a third empty, and as the economic crisis hit, attendance dropped off. The Admiralspalast saw an opportunity and contracted the Austria cast to play the remaining two months on the German-language license in Berlin. (See pictures of Barack Obama in Berlin...
...landmark decision on climate change and energy, President Barack Obama will announce tough new vehicle gas-mileage standards on Tuesday, the first ever national limits on greenhouse-gas emissions...
...choice for a gift. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House carrying a book for President Barack Obama, an edition of the American humorist Mark Twain's travels to the Holy Land. Twain didn't like the place much; he wrote rudely about the Arabs and thought the Jews should not have their own nation. Was it a warning from Netanyahu, and if so, what was he saying? Not many laughs in the Middle East? It's not the place you think it is? Stay away...
Expressions of shock and betrayal flowed from human rights groups against President Barack Obama last week after it was announced that some Guantanamo Bay terror suspects would continue to be tried by military commissions rather than conventional federal courts. "President Obama is backtracking dangerously on his reform agenda," warned Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth. The head of the American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony Romero, called Obama's announcement "absurd," adding, "These tribunals have no place in our democracy." (Read "Obama Orders Gitmo Closed. Now the Hard Part...