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...universe. The German chancellor met President George W. Bush Thursday to discuss, among other things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year by President Clinton. Clinton, of course, had avoided submitting the treaty for certain defeat in the Senate (where the very idea of ratifying it was rejected 95-0), leaving...
...When I heard there was already an [Undergraduate Council] meeting tonight," Summers said, "I wanted to take the opportunity for a candid exchange of views...
...back to New York, he made up his mind to revolutionize it. Most American photographers, to him, were stuffy and sentimental "pictorialists," so bent on imitating the look of painting that they couldn't treat photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds of photos he made of Georgia O'Keeffe...
...government official admits failure. Even before he has taken the job. Last month, while still just a nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta was already warning airline passengers that this summer would outdo even the terrible summer of 2000 for awfulness. "I need to be very candid with you," he told a Senate committee. "We are likely to have similar--or worse--delay problems this year as well. We simply have an air-traffic-control system that has not been able to keep pace with rapidly rising demand...
Studying meant poring over accounts of the crisis and examining hours of J.F.K. file footage. "I ended up having a 'reference tape' about an hour and a half long--interviews and candid footage of him, playing with his kids and talking to his wife. From this I had favorite moments, things I would go back to. A few months into the movie, I knew twice as much about him as I did going in. And there are things I would have done differently...