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...several things. Some say she makes top-down decisions. Others say she lacks vision for a job that isn't just a university presidency but almost a secretary-generalship of the deaf world. "It's like in Islam, people go to their Mecca for a holy religious cleansing," Lawrence Fleischer, dean of deaf studies at California State University, Northridge, says through an interpreter. "In our world, we see Gallaudet as the Mecca...
...recruiting for al-Qaeda, by U.S. and Pakistani officials in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in 2002, was hailed by the Bush administration as a key blow to the al-Qaeda network. "The capture of Abu Zubaydah is very helpful in making it more difficult for them to successfully reorganize," said Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time. "Al-Qaeda has many tentacles but one of them was cut off." But Suskind reports that the CIA learned that Zubaydah had suffered a head wound during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In fact, in a diary captured by the CIA, he wrote...
...then riding Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force base, was McClellan's final swing. He has given 502 formal briefings and traveling gaggles as the President's second White House Press Secretary, along with hundreds of informal gaggles at the White House and dozens more as Ari Fleischer's deputy before that. McClellan said he joked to the traveling staff: "If at any point you don't see me on this trip, don't worry about it. I'm fine...
...McClellan?s predecessor, Ari Fleischer, told TIME the departure was a selfless recognition by McClellan of the importance of change. "The American people are going to give the President a second look here in his sixth year because he?s engineering these changes," Fleischer said. "That?s helpful. He needs the country to give him a second look...
...will be punished as a party but they've been able to isolate Lula and make him a Teflon president," says David Fleischer, the author of Brazil Focus, a weekly political report. "That he knew nothing about the scandals has been accepted by the poor and lower middle class and that, together with his reserves of charisma built up over the years, could be enough...