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...know," she said, and started working the phones back to Washington, talking with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld and relaying information to the President. Bush remained publicly silent all through Sunday as U.S. diplomats looked for a discreet way out of the impasse. Bush knew that whatever signals he sent went not only to the Chinese but also to the rest of the world, which was waiting to see how an inexperienced new president would handle his first foreign policy test, how his instinct for caution would play against his equally instinctive impatience...
...know," she said, and started working the phones back to Washington, talking with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld and relaying information to the President. Bush remained publicly silent all through Sunday as U.S. diplomats looked for a discreet way out of the impasse. Bush knew that whatever signals he sent went not only to the Chinese but also to the rest of the world, which was waiting to see how an inexperienced new President would handle his first foreign policy test, how his instinct for caution would play against his equally instinctive impatience...
Meanwhile, the Housing Office can still flex its muscles and promote diversity by being discreet in its assignments. It already asks for the concentrations of students. It should also ask for the ethnic background and athletic or program involvement of each applicant...
...Historical Studies categories, there are a number of restrictions, namely that Historical Studies A must cover material up to present times, and Historical Studies B must be about a discreet event. Thus, "some great [departmental] courses may not fit well into A or B...A lot of courses would require reworking" [in order to meet Core guidelines], Gordon says...
...have kept to themselves and away from the campaign by victims' relatives for a trial, but they have always quietly been there for the bereaved, whether they be visitors or Molly Oliver, the only close relative of a local victim now left in Lockerbie. For the dead, there are discreet memorials all around. In the cemetery, a plain slab of gray Aberdeen granite bears all the victims' names. In Tundergarth churchyard, 5 km away and opposite the field where the plane's blue-and-white nose fell, a tiny stone building houses two memorial books. One lists the dead...