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...Early in the evening, New offered a concise appraisal of her husband’s dance style. “It’s unique,” she said. Robert M. Cronin, who has deejayed the event since 1997, said that Summers brings more punch than his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine. “With President Summers, it’s kind of more kicking from the very beginning,” said Cronin, who is an administrator in the Freshman Dean’s Office. “He’s always totally game...
...Minister Ehud Olmert. Having been deputized by Sharon en route to the hospital - and being one of his closest political allies - Olmert quickly drew the Kadima leadership around himself. The former mayor of Jerusalem is also a three-decade political veteran from a family involved in Likud and its predecessor, Herut, since even before the creation of the State of Israel. Like Sharon, he is a longstanding hawk who has moved steadily towards the center, even winking at the left, over the past decade. Indeed, over the past two years, before they quit Likud to form Kadima, Olmert's role...
...rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas Shannon as the new Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is widely regarded as a positive step, since Shannon, as a career diplomat, is less polarizing. Even Shannon's staunch anti-left predecessor, Roger Noriega, concedes that U.S. officials now "will be trying to avoid confrontation" with Bolivia's Morales. They don't have to sit down and chew coca with him, but maybe they could all share some Coca-Cola...
...baptism's importance beyond simply preventing the worst, and make a statement about the liberality of grace. Both the commission's work, which speaks for unbaptized infants, and the Vatican II language, which speaks for unbaptized adults, remind believers that, as Ratzinger wrote in a paraphrase of his predecessor John Paul II, Christians may hope that "God is powerful enough to draw to himself all those who were unable to receive the sacrament." Limbo was a vestige of an overfastidious exclusivity. Eliminating it affords a better view of God's many mansions, their doors wider than some of his followers...
RESIGNED. MARSHA EVANS, 56, as president of the American Red Cross; after its response to Hurricane Katrina was widely criticized as disorganized and slow; in Washington. A onetime rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Evans, like her predecessor, clashed with the agency's 50-member board, a group some observers blame for a long-term failure to address key structural problems at the agency...