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...Theodore Roosevelt built a rectangular room on the ground floor of the new West Wing, replacing offices on the second floor of the White House. William Howard Taft made it into an oval in honor of a symbolic feature of George Washington's Philadelphia residence: a room with a bowed end where the first President would stand surrounded by a circle of guests, allowing him to democratically greet each visitor from the same distance. The office was moved to its current location in the southeast corner of the White House...
During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
...from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Cot, a former paratrooper who plays practical jokes on his comrades and doles out toys to local kids--earn their paychecks and adrenaline rushes with honor. Others are renegade cowboys with AK-47s, issuing pronouncements like "I want to kill somebody today" the way one might propose dinner plans. Punctuated by a kidnapping with awful consequences, Fainaru's harrowing expos illuminates a $100 billion industry "where death, in many respects, is the cost of doing business...
Additionally, the discussion reiterated that the University will continue to honor its Financial Aid Initiative for this academic year, which was later confirmed in an e-mailed statement from Sally C. Donahue, director of financial...
...It’s an honor to break that record,” Akpan said after Saturday’s matchup. “But winning the Ivies is more important...