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...Bush aides pride themselves on their crisp scheduling but Bush is winging it-literally-day by day. As I write this in Colorado Springs, reporters and staff know that we?re bound to Austin today to visit the state?s emergency command center and that we?re scheduled to overnight in San Antonio-close enough to the storm to show Bush cares, far enough away from the action not to get too much in the way. As for when we return to Washington, the White House isn?t saying. Originally, officials said they expected to return on Sunday but there...
...Panafest festival in Ghana, a black Ghanaian man stood behind him and chirped, “Excuse me, sir, but can you move? This event is for the black people.” I was shocked when I heard this statement. A group of Ghanaians, who pride themselves on Ghana’s reputation for hospitality, immediately chided their fellow countryman for his rude statement. He walked away in embarrassment, and almost every Ghanaian who heard the statement apologized to the French journalist...
...visited the slave castles and enjoyed Panafest after a month in Ghana. I traveled through the northern rural towns and the southern urban centers. I lived in the central region of Ghana, where the pride of the Ashanti Empire remains. White people, who may have visited Ghana for a week, perhaps facing an awkward conversation or two, might have left with a misconstrued perception of slavery and Africa. I’m happy however, that many of the white people I met left not feeling blame, but feeling the same ownership I have. Ownership of the fact that historical inequities...
Klaus was especially outspoken on the claims that the Czech Republic could not survive and flourish without the EU. He said that such a view could threaten both individual state sovereignty and national pride...
...their rescue owed no thanks to a government which, until recently, took pride in its red alerts, its rapid air-strikes, its false sense of security. Are we left with any reason to share that sense of security, and to look forward to a more serious response to the fire next time...