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...bill, bankruptcy reform, a free-trade agreement--all came before the Category 5 bad news of the fall. But a well-received court nominee could help Bush turn the corner. He will be traveling to South America and Asia before the holidays, which is why the White House road map to recovery starts in earnest in January. "It is fundamentally a question of reconnecting with the American people," says a senior member of the Bush team. "One of the good things about being President of the United States is that even when you're down, you have the ability...
...historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...
...focused on domestic rather than international issues. But last week, Ahmadinejad stunned diplomats with the sort of outburst expected from a terrorist, not a President. At a conference in Tehran called "The World Without Zionism," Ahmadinejad told 4,000 students that "Israel must be wiped off the map." Afterwards, he joined 30,000 Iranians in an anti-Israel march through Tehran. Weaving among the demonstrators were dozens of young men outfitted with fake suicide belts, like those worn for "martyrdom operations" of the type radical Palestinians have carried out repeatedly against Israeli civilians. Other protesters carried placards with hate speech...
Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s top planner, couldn’t fit Harvard Stadium onto the map. A house was in the way. “You just knocked somebody’s house under the plans,” said Kevin McCluskey, the University’s director of community relations for Boston, who quickly removed the eraser-sized gray house jamming the tabletop model of Harvard’s properties in Allston. It was the only hiccup in a media tour yesterday afternoon of the new “Harvard in Allston Exhibit Room?...
...partitioning rarely followed tribal or cultural boundaries, and created some of the most nonsensical and least workable international borders in the world. Yet since independence in the 1960s, Africa's nations have held those borders sacred, fearful that unpicking a single seam might unravel the whole patchwork. On a map, one of the more irrational colonial creations is the West African nation of Gambia. Save for a brief Atlantic coastline, the slender country, which wraps around the banks of the River Gambia and was formed after British traders set up a series of posts along the river, is entirely surrounded...