Word: robert
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...Very serious,” said Robert G.B. Long, ’11, the presidential candidate on the ticket. “This is probably the most serious thing I’ve ever done. This is a serious, revolutionary idea...
Hayward and Zhang are up against the John F. Bowman '11 and Eric N. Hysen '11 ticket and Robert G. B. Long '11 and David R. Johnson '11 ticket this year. “The Long-Johnson ticket is going to the hardest to run against,” said Hayward, though that ticket is widely regarded as a less serious source of competition. “The other candidates are great," he added, "but we feel we have the best record of results...
...military effort in Afghanistan, choosing instead to donate $5 billion to humanitarian and training support in the war-torn country. At the same time, Hatoyama has forced the Obama administration to reopen talks about the U.S. military presence on the Japanese island of Okinawa, just weeks after Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to Japan to announce that the issue was closed, and some marines would stay. "It is time to move on," Gates said. (Read "Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region...
...focused messaging is running up against international and domestic events. On the flight to Asia, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs came to the press cabin on Air Force One only to be barraged with 12 consecutive questions about Afghanistan, followed by a question about Iraq. Later on Friday night, in Tokyo, during a briefing by Gibbs and Rhodes about Obama's speech on Saturday morning laying out a vision of U.S.-Asian relations, another news event intervened: White House counsel Greg Craig was leaving the White House, to be replaced by Obama's personal and campaign attorney, Bob Bauer...
...decision to leave, which has been rumored for months, was not related to Craig's role in setting a one-year deadline for removing detainees from the Guantánamo Bay detention center, an ambitious deadline that is unlikely to be met. (Read a 2-min. bio of Robert Gibbs...