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Princeton officials maintained the press release was an accident—simply a mix-up involving a professor eager to welcome a renowned colleague whose enthusiastic praise leaked out by mistake...
According to Durkee, the department chair’s secretary took the call and, eager to be helpful, remembered the sheet of paper marked “press release.” Assuming the moment had arrived to release the statement to the press, she passed along Palmer’s endorsement...
Passing that agenda will not be easy, in part because Bush, despite his reputation, is not always eager to do what is necessary to win over lawmakers. In December he gave a ride on Air Force One to half the South Carolina congressional delegation as he flew back to Washington from a speech in Charleston. The lawmakers spent the flight in the plane's conference room, waiting for Bush to stop by. Inside his office, aides kept reminding Bush, who was in the middle of giving an interview, that he needed to pay a visit to the Congressmen and Senator...
Those qualities blossomed during World War II, when the Queen revealed a doughty spirit. Eager to set an example for her subjects, she visited hospitals and slums and delivered broadcasts in fluent French to the women of occupied France. The Queen recognized that war would prove to be a great democratic leveler. "I'm glad we have been bombed," she said in 1940, after Buckingham Palace weathered the first in a series of air attacks. "It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face." Hitler was to have said, "She is the most dangerous woman...
...Republican Party eager to be reshaped...