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Romney advisers are debating whether he will need to give a big speech in the tradition of John F. Kennedy, who told Protestant church leaders in Houston 46 years ago that he was "not the Catholic candidate for President" but instead was "the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be Catholic." After the G.O.P.'s defeat in the midterms, that may be a speech Republicans are prepared to hear. A big tent, even one stretching all the way to Salt Lake City, could be what gets them back into power in Washington two years from...
...what the President's doing ... it would be terrible." But he kept on talking: "It'd bring great anxiety not only to him but to his supporters." And talking: "In the early 1960s, Jim Baker and I were the men's doubles champions in tennis in the city of Houston," he said of the former Secretary of State, now co-chairing a panel that is supposed to make recommendations about what to do in Iraq. And then the former President talked some more: "If I were to suggest what they ought to do, it just would not be constructive...
...doctors crowded into the small conference room in Houston certainly are. They're having a bit of fun in the middle of an intense four-week crash course in tropical medicine. At the end of their medical marathon, they will be trading the steamy urban comforts of Texas for the hothouse that is Africa; some are headed to the southern tip of the continent, to Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland, others to the west, to Burkina Faso, while another bunch is destined for the east, to Malawi and Tanzania. Before they go, however, they need to learn an entirely new kind...
...charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while at the same time training and teaching local doctors and nurses how to adjust doses and understand symptoms of AIDS in the disease's youngest patients. It hasn't been easy, but the 52 doctors who left Houston in August have been doing their small part to treat as many HIV-infected kids as they can - and to help these kids to grow up in a world that understands and accepts them as no different for the HIV status...
...Washington University School of Medicine and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston also received grants...