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...control. While the administration worked to construct a diplomatic solution, it was also careful to stage-manage how it all looked from the outside, how it would play in the big daily papers and on the evening news. The projected image: Bush at the helm but smartly hands-off, setting the tone but letting his team of professionals do their job. CEO-style corporate diplomacy - smooth, unhurried, competent, straight down from the top. And no leaks about big decisions by anyone but the boss. Thursday Bush was eating his regular lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney - the veep eating salad...
Their research focuses on the use of nanowires and nanotubes to construct tiny electronic circuits. These wires and tubes, which can only be seen with the most powerful of microscopes, are so small that just moving them around is a challenge...
Couch worked with class officers and PBHA members to construct the guest list for Thursday's presentation, which included people who do not regularly give to the College, but have the capability to do so and backgrounds in public service. Of 45 invited alumni, 18 attended, which Couch says is a high percentage for fundraising events...
...should be proactive in our criticism of dining services. Let HUDS do the cooking--but let students take that extra minute to construct the picture-perfect cuisine that is just beyond the chef's reach. Did somebody say "cheese...
Diplomacy is an art form, a subtle construct of gestures and words, body language and rhetoric carefully arranged for a single purpose: to persuade another country to behave the way you want. Tone is the hardest thing to get right. How do you convey your views so they're firm and forceful without putting the other side's back...