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...nearly forgotten Washington truism that was proven once again this week by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz: the longer a scandal-besmirched political appointee holds out against his critics, his party, his patrons and the press - even after all hope of redemption is lost - the greater his odds of walking away with a measure of vindication...
...well-rehearsed candidates—who, no doubt, have spent their entire college career preparing for this moment—circle campus, delivering platitudinous speeches about arcane bureaucratic details. All the while, the busybody pretend-politicians of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and Harvard College Democrats issue tendentiously-phrased press releases on sundry college-related and national issues, hoping to impress future voters with their deft imitation of the duplicitous and evasive officials they aspire one day to replace...
Having an African-American like Tommy Amaker at the helm of your basketball program is thus far more than just a positive symbolic move given negative press. “I definitely felt like I had an advantage,” Roby says of his own days recruiting for Harvard basketball in the late 1980s. “There was a clear connection I could make with families, being an African-American male that was actually a living, breathing example of someone in the Ivy League. I was someone trying to get their son an Ivy education...
...news conference to address it and said, "It's important for people to understand that this program is so sensitive and so important, that if information gets out [on] how we do it, or how we operate, it will help the enemy." Asked about the hospital visit at a press conference today, President Bush declined to provide specifics, saying that the program was "highly classified." Bush also declined to say whether he himself had authorized Gonzales to have the conversation with Ashcroft, as Comey suggested during his testimony may have been the case...
...resource. Thursday's rite sealed the four-year long effort by Putin, beginning in September 2003, to have the Moscow Patriarchate take over its rival American-based cousin and launch a new globalized Church as his state's main ideological arm and a vital foreign policy instrument. In February press conference, Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei Filatov, a top authority on Russian religious affairs notes that "traditional confessions" is the state...