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...Hatches the Egg, he had stolidly perched on an irresponsible bird's egg, and stayed at the job for nearly a year, because he had promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot and dump it in a giant field of clover, where Horton would...
...political connection, but the bossy Kangaroo (voiced by Burnett) seems strangely like Hillary Clinton. "That Horton's a menace," she says, adding, as if it were a crime against humanity. "He's got rabbits using their imaginations!" The lady does all in her nattering power to sabotage Horton's mission, and sends out her surrogates - the Wickersham monkeys acting like so many fractious Ferraros - on a whispering campaign against the idealistic elephant (who, in this case, should probably be a donkey). Yet the movie keeps the audience rooting for idealism, for the unlikely hero, for the audacity of Horton...
Bush's Secret Mission...
Furthermore, as part of Harvard, HUAM has a specific educational mission. As a result, Ebbinghaus says, HUAM wants to "continue collecting because we believe in having this collection here available for teaching purposes...
...never know what to expect when Karl Rove calls. But when the phone rang for Mary Ann Glendon last summer, Rove, still President Bush's top adviser at the time, had a holy mission for her: Ambassador to the Vatican. Now, having just landed in Rome, she has one of the biggest tasks of that mission already waiting on her desk: coordinating Benedict XVI's first papal visit next month to the United States. "It's a great moment to arrive here," Glendon says of her assignment to the Holy See. "[The trip] will be interesting... Be prepared...