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...Dean is winning on both counts. His opposition to the war is looking less radical every day. His style-his imprudence, his plain talk-just doesn't sound like the other guys. At the Dems' winter meeting in Washington, he arrived at the podium and, instead of lapsing into the usual thank-you blather, blasted off like a rocket-propelled grenade: "What I want to know is why so many Democrats in Washington aren't standing up against Bush's unilateral war in Iraq." This was followed by several more withering "What I want to knows" and then the introduction...
Standing at a podium positioned in the middle of the tennis courts and shouting over an occasional whistle from the nearby train line, Summers lauded Menino—whom he called “my friend, the mayor of Boston”—for his leadership...
Summers spent most of his time at the podium addressing young people from the Tenacity program, about 50 of whom were seated in rows on the surface of the court and in the nearby bleachers...
...liked the idea of these people, who didn’t get to be in the spotlight that much, [on] their podium talking,” he says of why he chose to include only the words of the workers and none...
Leaning against one corner of the podium, his collar unbuttoned, Summers recounted his amazement upon receiving a cell phone call on a small and impoverished island off the Côte d’Ivoire. The experience was reflective of a changing world, he said...