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...Riyadh necessarily inclined to go its own way. In the past two months, it has been worried enough about its relations with America to launch a P.R. blitz modeled after a U.S. political campaign, with issue ads, town-hall meetings, focus groups and overnight polling. The goal: to improve the image of the Saudis in the U.S. Only 32% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans...
When President George W. Bush signed the “No Child Left Behind Act of 2002” in January, the occasion was met with fanfare so great that he held media-blitz rallies in three different states in one day to trumpet his new legislative achievement and to share the victory with the bill’s legislative sponsors, including Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass...
Seirawan, the top-ranked American player, may be the game's last best hope. One of the few voices of reason in a game full of mad geniuses, he has been circulating a compromise proposal: create separate world championships for classical, rapid and ultra-fast blitz chess and appoint a chess commissioner to mediate between players and organizers. His plan will be discussed at a players' meeting in Prague...
Wood, a Vanderbilt Medical School professor and vice chancellor for research, got a call from a White House official within days of the lobbying blitz and was told his nomination as the FDA chief was off. The official said opposition from drug companies and conservative media had snuffed his chances, a source tells TIME. Wood, who sits on an FDA advisory panel and the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, wouldn't comment on his aborted appointment, except to note, "Drug safety is an issue that everyone should embrace...
...CAMR’s behind-the-scenes efforts in D.C. were hardly the catalyst for the media blitz that ensued...