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...been asked by the President and my new boss to focus on big strategic questions and the bigger issues," Rove told TIME. The idea, according to an aide, is for Rove to focus on "immigration, not the definition of seaward lateral boundaries." But Rove relishes his role at the nexus of policy and politics, and had dived into the governing responsibilities Bush gave him at the start of the second term. He tackled both fundamentals and minutiae, from formalizing the elaborate steps aides must take when preparing for policy time with the President to revising the official calendars handed...
Adds Franks: "I have no desire to suck up to the Secretary, but I'll tell you he is a terrific manager. And I have been a combat soldier for a long time. The nexus of the two is very powerful for this country." Another Pentagon official puts it this way: "There are hundreds of one-star generals and action officers who complain that Rumsfeld's not listening to the military. But the truth is that he is. He just isn't listening to them...
...post built in 1689 put Churchill on the map, but today polar bears outnumber humans and the town's main businesses are tourism and hunting. It is the nearest port to the cereal fields of central Canada, however, and when the ice melts, it could find itself at the nexus of the first new trade route since the construction of the Panama and Suez canals...
...very loyal audience, but at the same time I keep on seeing audiences growing and new groups starting up.” The recent increase in the frequency of performances also verifies the vitality of the genre.THE CITY’S CAPTIVATIONOne reason why Boston has become a nexus of early music is the high concentration of educated specialists at academic institutions in the area. “Early music is necessarily tied up with scholarship,” says Zazulia. Often, the composer is unknown and no definitive edition of the work may exist. “You have...
...thing, the older an artifact is, the harder it becomes to show the neat nexus of affiliations that the law requires. "The evidence collapses as you go back in time," says Pat Barker, an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada, who is working on a similar case. "The first 500 years is pretty solid, by 1,000 it's getting dicey, and by 10,000 most of that stuff you just...