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...friends.” I need to meet this Caleb guy, I thought. Of course, there was a catch. The more serious Caleb’s presidential ambitions were, the less likely he would be to admit them. It was one thing for freshmen to broadcast their big dreams on their Facebook profiles. Caleb was in a whole different category. I had heard he was incredibly smooth, always on message. He was taking off his junior fall to work as a personal assistant to Karl Rove. If I wanted to meet him, I would have to fly down...
...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...
...most part, Iranian government reaction was muted. Iran's conservative broadcast media reported on Obama's victory right away, but state television's most important evening news program highlighted people's discontent with the Republicans - and in particular, with Bush's post-9/11 policies - rather than focusing on the euphoria surrounding the person and candidacy of America's first black President...
...poet, essayist, critic, historian - but now she has added another one: orator. Her latest book, Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth, isn't just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about how to get out of financial debt...
...issue than some of his subordinates. A close friend of President Calderón's, he had taken the post in January and survived calls for his resignation over accusations he had given government contracts to his family's company while serving as Undersecretary of Energy. In a nationally broadcast speech, Calderón offered condolences to Mouriño's children: "His death is a great weight on me. But at the same time, it is a powerful motivation to go on fighting without rest, now more than ever, for the ideals we shared." Calder...