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MARGARET SPELLINGS, U.S. Education Secretary, giving encouragement to deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino, who will take over for press secretary Tony Snow, who is battling cancer...
...Bush's adolescent petulance more obvious than in his decision to ignore the Baker-Hamilton report and move in the exact opposite direction: adding troops and employing counterinsurgency tactics inappropriate to the situation on the ground. "There was no way he was going to accept [its findings] once the press began to portray the report as Daddy's friends coming to the rescue," a member of the Baker-Hamilton commission told me. As with Bush's invasion of Iraq, the decision to surge was made unilaterally, without adequate respect for history or military doctrine. Iraq was invaded with insufficient troops...
...worth $4.2 billion, but Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, liked to eat takeout and shop at discount outlets. The saga of "Little Sweetie," as she was dubbed by the Hong Kong press, became tabloid fodder as she battled her father-in-law over the fortune of her real estate--tycoon husband Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped in 1990 and never seen again. (A 2005 ruling allowed her to hold on to the estate.) She was 69 and reportedly had ovarian cancer...
Following a season high 17 goal effort last week, the Harvard women’s water polo team nearly matched that output en route to a 16-4 triumph over Connecticut College (1-6) last night in New London, Conn. Utilizing a smothering press, the Crimson contained the Camel offense by never letting it get down the pool. Rather, the Harvard defense forced multiple Connecticut turnovers and then converted them into easy scores. After one quarter the Crimson had built up a 4-1 lead. The second quarter was even more impressive as Harvard went...
...RIAA blasted the study in a 2004 press release, calling the results “inconsistent with virtually every other study done by academics and research analysts...