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...methodical, think it through, talk to my colleagues," Rudd said. "I think that's the right thing to do. John Howard would do the same thing." To vaunt his own authority, Rudd recently convened a national summit on climate change and invited miners, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers to confer. A stunt? Yes. But the coverage helped widen his lead on what Labor argues is the great moral issue...
...dean,” said Knowles, who is expected to step down from his interim post June 30.Committee members have declined to comment on their work advising the incoming president, although English Department Chair James Engell ’73 said that they have a schedule in place to confer with Faust.Knowles said he looks forward to the forthcoming appointment of a “younger and more vigorous dean.”The 10 search committee members are Engell, Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman, Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby...
...named Frank Miller went to the movies with his parents. The movie was Rudolph Mat's The 300 Spartans. Miller was 5. "It had a deep, deep effect on me," Miller says. "I actually snuck across the theater in order to confer with my dad and make sure the heroes really were dying. I stopped thinking of heroes as being the people who got medals at the end or the key to the city and started thinking of them more as the people who did the right thing and damn the consequences." When Miller grew up, he created a comic...
...room for the emotionalism that has suffused the debate over the RAF. Political scientist Kraushaar says Germany cannot effectively face new risks in the age of fundamentalist Islamic terror without first taming old demons. The best antidote to the ideological poison of terrorism, in short, may not be to confer special punishments on its practitioners, but simply to let the law take its course on a pair of aging murderers...
...million yuan (($500,000 at the 1966 exchange rate)),'' I told her. The Red Guards were impressed. The teacher was by now anxious to save the treasures, but she was afraid to put herself in the wrong with the Red Guards. They all went to the dining room to confer...