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...fact, the decision to enter Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic day school in Illinois, was her parents’. However, upon beginning high school, she decided that the stereotypes she feared were more speculation than fact.“It wasn’t like ‘Mean Girls’ or anything. It wasn’t 24-7 drama,” she says, eagerly noting that she made lifelong friendships in her four years at Woodlands. “They in a sense become your sisters, and after four years you are so close...
...history teacher at a girls' high school in Honolulu. "She wasn't ideological," notes Obama. "I inherited that, I think, from her. She was suspicious of cant." He remembers her joking that she wanted to get paid as much as a man, but it didn't mean she would stop shaving her legs. In his recent Philadelphia speech on race, in which he acknowledged the grievances of blacks and whites, Obama was consciously channeling his mother. "When I was writing that speech," he told nbc News, "her memory loomed over me. Is this something that she would trust?" When...
...would have been inserting itself into a part of Iraq that we don't know very well-the south-and taking sides against what is probably the most popular mass movement in Shi'ite Iraq. But the Petraeus battle plan apparently includes an anti-Sadrist move, which may mean a spurt of violence as widespread and vicious as the worst of the Sunni insurgency. Is that why the general wants a "pause" in the U.S. withdrawal this summer...
That's not an admission you'd expect to hear from Mugabe. We need a new political and economic ethos in Zimbabwe. And for that, we need to develop a totally different paradigm in terms of what leadership means. I have known Mugabe for many years. [What he does not understand is] being firm does not have to mean that you are a dictator. Providing leadership does not mean you are not able to rule by consensus. We try to ensure we are democratic. We are also aware that at the end of the day, decisions have to be taken...
...opportunity to make dramatic gestures. The Sunni insurgency has genuinely been put back on its heels in the face of the surge, and there may be a temptation among insurgent strategists to lie low and regroup in their remaining havens around Iraq. But any insurgent pause now may mean lost chances to attack American troops and to score political points just as the disposition of U.S. military strength is up for debate...