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...those days, presidents didn't speak out like they do today. In fact, when Lincoln stood up before this huge meeting, he said "I believe there's no precedent for my appearing before you on this occasion." It's the same contrast when Roosevelt was on the radio during World War II. He delivered maybe three fireside chats a year during the war, which meant they had an enormous impact. Today presidents have a radio chat every week. They're no longer special moments...
...contrast to Hamas leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas quickly condemned the bombings as "despicable" and against Palestinian interests, a position he has held for years. But when it comes to restraining terror attacks, Abbas is - and always has been - a lame duck, unable to enforce his position in his own ranks. Leaders of the very same Fatah movement that the U.S. hopes to have reelected have for weeks been attacking Israelis, with rockets and even at least one suicide bomber, as part of their campaign to undermine Hamas. On the other hand, though Hamas won't condemn Monday's attack...
...party during Ramadan, the entire community would have been up in arms. The Harvard Foundation would have nervously proclaimed a town hall meeting, and the national media would have surely picked the story up.Harvard Christians’ response to this string of events is a sharp contrast to last November, when Harvard’s Muslim community felt under attack at the publication of anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. A town hall meeting had to be called to save face. No such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard?...
...leadership structure strives for separation between news and opinion, as well. I chair the news board, and report to our managing editor, as do the chairs of Arts, Sports, and Fifteen Minutes. The managing editor reports to the president. In contrast, however, the chairs of the editorial board report directly to the president. Except for the daily proofer who proofreads the editorial page and checks it for libel the night before publication, the news board has no involvement whatsoever in the production of The Crimson’s editorial positions...
...leader since Mao Zedong. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin spent his early years in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, studied in the Soviet Union and reveled in his trips overseas; he was proud of his ability to recite from memory chunks of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. By contrast, Hu studied only in China and spent much of his career in its remote, impoverished western provinces. Jiang "liked to make jokes" with his foreign hosts, says Chu Shulong, a professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University. "Hu doesn't make jokes. He's pretty practical...