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...sounded a little stunned, it wasn't surprising. The Commander in Chief hasn't had much practice in positive developments in the past nine months. And so, as White House speechwriters went to work on the remarks the President would deliver from the Rose Garden during breakfast news shows, they tried to strike a tone of "tempered optimism," according to an aide who worked on the speech. When Bush appeared before the cameras, he sounded muted, speaking of his hope that the death of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi would allow Iraq's infant government to "turn the tide...
...Rose Garden this morning, President George W. Bush was one of the few Administration officials who wasn't smiling. Having learned the hazards of gloating, he maintained a deliberately somber mien as he saluted American troops for the allies' most dramatic victory in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world...
...President called British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who congratulated his beleaguered counterpart across the Atlantic. Then Bush talked to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for about 25 minutes, and stepped into the Rose Garden. Senior aides, including Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Counselor Michael Gerson and Communications Director Nicolle Devenish, had been waiting with the press, and Vice President Cheney followed Bush out of the Oval Office and stood far offstage...
...plan regular house-based social events, throw open parties, and skirt potentially more stringent constraints on alcohol at larger events. HoCos, for example, threw Stein Clubs immediately before Yardfest, so that neither the College administration, nor students, would not have to encounter the unfortunate hassle of a policed beer garden. As it begins the fall semester, the UC could further benefit social life by strongly advocating the expansion of the Student Events Fund, which currently provides 500 undergraduates with free tickets to campus events.Through concerts, student group offices, and room parties, Harvard’s “social life?...
...understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...