Word: exits
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...voted for exactly the same Iraq resolution, a phased withdrawal without a fixed timetable. Both he and Clinton voted against John Kerry's proposal to withdraw all troops by July 2007, for reasons that still sound good today. "What is needed is a blueprint for an expeditious yet responsible exit from Iraq," Obama said on the Senate floor last June. "A hard and fast, arbitrary deadline for withdrawal offers our commanders in the field ... insufficient flexibility to implement that strategy." Clinton remains opposed to timetables, but Obama decided to change his position and in January announced the March 2008 date...
...before hurrying away down the street.A couple more overseers trickled out, carefully side-stepping questions about whether a vote had taken place. Finally, at 2:45 p.m., two overseers enthusiastically confirmed that Drew Gilpin Faust would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended...
...walking past the hundreds of booths and brushing off the clutching hands and pleas to "come inside, mister, just looking," I noticed a series of very serious, official-looking documents pasted up prominently on the wall near the exit. Scanning them, I realized they were the proudly posted announcement of an earlier court judgment in which 23 prominent brand manufacturers sued the Silk Market for counterfeiting. On January 17 the Chaoyang district court in Beijing weighed in with the head-snapping pronouncement that there was not enough evidence of counterfeiting at the Silk Market to convict. As I stood there...
...press conference ends. Reporters begin to exit the room, but seize the opportunity to snap a picture of Faust and Bok together. Corporation members, including Houghton, talk to reporters...
...squad took the floor at every opportunity. After the game, an 88-78 Bulldogs victory, Yale guard Casey Hughes—who shut down Harvard captain Jim Goffredo in an impressive display of individual defense—was swamped by a retinue of female fans as he made his exit from the arena, looking very much the big man on campus despite being 130 miles from New Haven. “I wouldn’t say that there’s too much of a home-court advantage here [at Harvard],” said veteran Yale point guard...