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...Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with sharp thinking: "Words matter, nuance matters," said Joseph Biden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...From the beginning, certain names came to mind. Within the University, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg `67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark `74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza "Condi" Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...
Iquitos is the kind of town you might expect to read about in the pages of Joseph Conrad, tucked hard along the Amazon and alive with equal parts danger and promise. It draws missionaries of all kind, zealots intent on changing the world by starting here. It was two such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to bring Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint. The results...
...Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with sharp thinking: "Words matter, nuance matters," said Delaware's Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...shaker." And Leahy has no qualms about going for the jugular. "The A380 will be a new flying experience," he says. "That's what the 747 provided in 1970." He maintains that airlines will probably install casinos, gyms or duty-free shopping in the A380's abundant cargo hold. Joseph San Pietro, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, dismisses such a notion as a flight of fancy. "You're not going to be running on a treadmill if you hit turbulence," he says...