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ACCORDING TO A SOURCE IN the State Department, Jim Wilkinson, a senior adviser to Condoleezza Rice, recently asked the department's historian for a list of countries that have never been visited by a U.S. Secretary of State. An unlikely Trivial Pursuit question, his inquiry signals that Rice's travels, which have already taken her to 11 countries in her first six weeks on the job, will be more extensive than most of her predecessors'. "The Secretary will travel when there's serious diplomatic work to be done," says Wilkinson. "There's no better diplomacy than personal contact...
Though still down a skater, St. Lawrence responded by ratcheting up the pressure in the Harvard zone—and on Grumet-Morris—twice knocking the Crimson goaltender down in pursuit of loose pucks, much to the chagrin of his teammates. In the final 69 seconds of the period, four penalties were assessed—two charges for the Saints, two roughing calls against Harvard skaters protecting Grumet-Morris...
...moderation that Frist previously exhibited will be crowded out by his need to curry favor with the far right. As a prominent Democrat once aptly noted, “There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory...
...issue is not about moral absolutes, but whether the pursuit of truth is possible at all. If we are not understood as believing in everything equally, we are depicted as believing in only one thing absolutely. There is no longer room for the theoretical middle ground, where one spends one's life discussion. We can't avoid thinking. The thoughtless are always going to be the prisoners of other people's thoughts. American intellectual life has given us an easy way to believe anything we want...
Like so many of her other goals, No. 52 wasn’t going to come easy. While Clarkson defenseman Meghan Park guarded Corriero, Golden Knight winger Ashley Shaidle had already started skating over from beside the right post in pursuit of the puck...