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...University's effort to warm the local community to its ever-deepening presence was not lost on attendees, who were treated to a sumptuous buffet of duck canapés, marinated artichokes, and chocolate éclairs...
...Reiss’s animated feature film “Queer Duck,” based on his popular online cartoon shorts of the same name, premiered in New York last Sunday...
...chairman Ma Ying-jeou, an early favorite in the 2008 presidential race, joined calls for Chen to step down?adding to the already considerable pressure on the President. If Chen does stay in office for the two years remaining in his term, he seems destined to be a lame duck. "I don't think there's any way the President can come back and gain substantial control of country," Sheng says. "He has already lost his mandate...
...negotiated agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before moving ahead with plans to unilaterally redraw its border. After all, Olmert had actually campaigned on the promise of acting unilaterally to finalize Israel's borders, and he has made no secret that he sees Abbas as a lame duck. The Palestinian leader is not trusted by the democratically elected Hamas government, without whose consent no deal is credible, and he is pretty much ignored by as much as half of the rank-and-file of his own Fatah organization. Even at the height of his powers he had been unable...
...serving the faculty for a reasonable period of time again,” he said. “I will leave whenever I’m comfortable that I can leave the new school in good shape.” The fruition of the proposal marked a lame-duck victory for University President Lawrence H. Summers, whose tenure as president ends in just five weeks. In an interview yesterday, Summers said, the new school would be the first new school at Harvard in three and a half decades. “As I like to say, great scientific achievement...